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  • verb Present participle of pox.

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Examples

  • Apart from blights poxing horse-chestnut and sycamore leaves, the yellowing of many beech and the crispy curling of some ash were due to drought.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • My friend and mom both work for the BC Gov and do not deserve poxing!

    Medical Week, "Relax" (an odd term), and my dance. Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • 21/2/08 9: 40 PM jen said ... are you freaking kidding me? i'd be poxing all over them for pulling this crap.

    A Perpoxing Question ewe are here 2008

  • He knew when he agreed to captain Star and chance a run of the blockade that he couldn’t outfight the poxing Royal Navy.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • And what about the small matter o’ the poxing British blockade?

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • He knew when he agreed to captain Star and chance a run of the blockade that he couldn’t outfight the poxing Royal Navy.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • A bit o’ seamanship, yes, but mostly sheer poxing luck.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • A bit o’ seamanship, yes, but mostly sheer poxing luck.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • If Bastard Devrey’s giving you a sloop, he can poxing well give you a captain to sail her.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

  • If you don’t trust me enough for the truth about your poxing cousin, you sure as hell shouldn’t trust me to run a sloop past a Royal Navy blockade, find a treasure as was buried some fifty years past, and bring it back and hand it over.

    City of Glory Beverly Swerling 2007

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