Etymology

boxy

B3O1X8Y4

Today it means: Box-shaped, boxlike, or otherwise suggestive of boxes (with right angles or at least blunt profiles). Full definition →

English box ← Middle English box ← Old English box
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The story

  1. Ancient Greekπῠ́ξος (pŭ́xos)
  2. Ancient Greekπυξίς (puxís)
  3. Late Latinbuxis
  4. Proto-West Germanic*buhsā
  5. Old Englishbox
  6. Middle Englishbox
  7. Englishbox
  8. English todayboxy

From box + -y.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.