cox

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

cox, n. [OE. cokes. Cf. Coax.].

 A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.  [1913 Webster]
"Go; you're a brainless cox, a toy, a fop."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cox, n. (in full Cox's orange pippin) a variety of eating-apple with a red-tinged green skin.

Etymology

R. Cox, amateur Eng. fruit grower d. 1825

cox, n. & v.
--n. a coxswain, esp. of a racing-boat.
--v.
1 intr. act as a cox (coxed for Cambridge).
2 tr. act as cox for (coxed the winning boat).

Etymology

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