Definitions

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  • adjective Characteristic of, or like, an ox.

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  • adjective Resembling an ox or some aspect of one: strong, foolish, etc.

Etymologies

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ox +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The best he could manage was a dull, oxlike misery.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • The best he could manage was a dull, oxlike misery.

    Full-Blooded Fantasy Steve Erickson 2005

  • The best he could manage was a dull, oxlike misery.

    The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004

  • The best he could manage was a dull, oxlike misery.

    The Sea of Trolls Nancy Farmer 2004

  • He goes about his work with oxlike steadiness and eats in silence.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Francesca removed part of her oxlike client's anatomy from her mouth.

    The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael's quiet instructions to Jason.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Over by the bar a good-looking boy in the dusty clothes of a trailhand just in from Virginia City and his oxlike older brother had gotten into a vociferous argument over a girl with a dark-haired gambler, their voices rising higher and higher over Ishmael's quiet instructions to Jason.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • This sally did not appear even to dent Crassus's oxlike composure.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • In their individual stalls only two of the six bulls remained, No. 38, the big sluggish oxlike fellow that G6mez was about to fight, and No. 47, the unshaven one who had killed Sangre A7ul ..

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

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