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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pox .
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Examples
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We trecked all the way from NZ to England for xmas, and just after xmas, my then 2 year old got 'poxed'. 2 weeks later her big sister followed suit.
Because The Year Just Wouldn't Have Been Complete Without A Pestilence 2006
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Dr. Josh has helped my research with this matter before, but I'd be curious about what kind of hereditary effects (if any) "poxed" parents would transmit to their offspring.
Word Wenches 2009
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She and Franz-Josef hadn't dealt too well since he'd poxed her, and she'd taken to wandering Europe while he pleaded with her to forgive and forget.
Watershed 2010
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When you've been pressed into service as "sergeant-general" of the Malagassy army, or forced to convoy a bog-trotting idiot figged up as Sinbad the Sailor through an enemy army, or dragooned into impersonating a poxed-up Danish prince - why, what's a slave rebellion more or less?
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Wide-eyed, she backed away from him as if he was visibly poxed.
A Different Light Mariah Stewart 2010
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He is a man with high cheekbones sort of poxed in the hollows, rough-graded, and a thin mustache that he keeps well above his lip, tended and particular.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He is a man with high cheekbones sort of poxed in the hollows, rough-graded, and a thin mustache that he keeps well above his lip, tended and particular.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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We trecked all the way from NZ to England for xmas, and just after xmas, my then 2 year old got ‘poxed’. 2 weeks later her big sister followed suit.
Because The Year Just Wouldn’t Have Been Complete Without A Pestilence | Her Bad Mother 2006
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This Christmas he's wrapped up two spectacular gifts: not just "" The Thin Red Line, '' in which he plays a World War II sergeant torn between allegiance to his men and allegiance to himself, but also "" Hurlyburly, '' a scabrous drama about the poxed inner lives of four Hollywood sleazebags (Penn, Kevin Spacey, Garry Shandling and Chazz Palminteri).
Tough Guy Talking 2008
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He is a man with high cheekbones sort of poxed in the hollows, rough-graded, and a thin mustache that he keeps well above his lip, tended and particular.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
yarb commented on the word poxed
Citation on pus.
June 22, 2008