What is the meaning of POX. Phrases containing POX
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Pox is slang for venereal disease.
Tilbury Docks is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox). Tilbury Docks is British slang for socks.
The urge to have sex with younger men.
Originally someone who had one of the various pox's, e.g. chicken pox, cow pox, small pox etc. These produce pustules on the skin which can often result in 'pock marks, hence pocky, pocksy or poxy. From that, anyone who has some sort of skin problem would be called 'poxy'... and from that anyone thought to be crap or minging would get the nick as well! The contributor was musing on why the name has persisted for so long since smallpox has been eradicated for so long, but I think he's forgetting that 'the pox' was also a euphemism for any kind of venereal disease, or sexually transmitted infection. So, for as long as *they* persist, being called 'poxy' will be an insult!
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Poxy is slang for having or having had syphilis.Poxy is British slang for rubbish, crass, inferior, worthless.
Surrey docks is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox).
To suddenly find ones skin developing pimples or acne (also for diseases such as measles, chicken pox and the like). Used as "My face is full of scabs. I really shouldn't scratch when I break out in pimples.".
adj crappy; third-rate. Presumably derived in some way from when horrible things were described as being ridden with a pox.
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Adj. 1. Rubbishy, crass, of poor quality. 2. A general negative intensifier. E.g."I'm not wasting my time and money by going to the poxy shops, just to keep her happy." * Occasionally spelt poxey.
Shoes and socks is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox).
The pox is slang for venereal disease.
Venereal disease, VD, pox, clap etc. (ed: I have to admit to liking this expression... "cupid's itch" really gets to the bottom of things!)
Pox of is British slang for fed−up with.
Reverend Ronald Knox is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox).
Royal docks is London Cockney rhyming slang for venereal disease (pox).
Terrible, "shitty"
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Chicken pox.
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The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
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An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.
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To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
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A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox.
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