HOXとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 2

Inherited from Middle English hoxen, reduction or back-formation of earlier hoxenen, from the noun *hoxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from 古期英語 hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) +‎ *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, huxen, and sinew.

動詞

hox (三人称単数 現在形 hoxes, 現在分詞 hoxing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hoxed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.
   • c. 1610–1611, Shakespeare, William, The Winter's Tale, Act 1, Scene 2:

     To bide upon't: thou art not honest; or / If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward, / Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining / From course required.