英和和英

語源

pox +‎ -y

発音

• 韻: -ɒksi

形容詞

poxy (comparative poxier, superlative poxiest)

1. (medicine) Suffering from pox.
2. (figurative) Sickening; unsatisfactory; generally bad.
   • 1990 January 13, David Quantick, Steven Wells, “Is It Rock Art Or Is It Nart?”, in New Musical Express:

     Being a pop star means its goodbye to starving in a poxy garret.

   • 2023 November 24, Rory Carroll, “‘Government is not listening’: anger over immigration spills into riot on Dublin’s streets”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “Everyone bally [balaclava] up, tool up,” said one man. “Let’s show the fucking media that we’re not a fucking pushover, that no more fucking foreigners are allowed into this poxy country.”

関連する語

• pockmark
• pockmarked
• chickenpox
• smallpox

参考

• lousy