boxen

B3O1X8E1N1

adjective

Made of boxwood.

OriginMiddle English boxen ← Old English byxen →
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Meanings

boxen1

adjectiveboxen (comparative more boxen, superlative most boxen)

comparative more boxen · superlative most boxen

  1. Made of boxwood.
  2. Resembling box (the wood).

boxen2

noun
  1. humorousnonstandardpluralplural of box (“computer”)

    Reality: Sun and HP are hardware companies. They make boxen.

    2004, Joel Spolsky, chapter 40, in Joel on Software, Apress, →ISBN, page 287

Origin

boxen · adjective

  1. Old Englishbyxen“made of boxwood”
  2. Middle Englishboxen
  3. Englishboxen

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box + -en.

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boxen · noun

From box (“computer”) + -en (archaic/Germanic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen and possibly also oxen.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with boxen

CoxonMoxoncoxswainalloxan
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Anagrams

Xbone
Cite this entry
APA

boxen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boxen

MLA

“boxen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boxen. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boxen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boxen.

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