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noun
verb (used with object)
2.
to act as coxswain to (a boat).
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Coxes
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Origin:
1865–70; short form
1865–70; short form
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Word Origin & History
Cox
surname, from early 16c., earlier Cocks (c.1300), in many cases from cock (n.1), which apparently was used as a personal name in O.E., also as a familiar term for a boy, later used of apprentices, servants, etc. Perhaps in some cases for the sign of an inn. In some cases perhaps
EXPANDfrom cook, or Welsh coch "red."
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