coxy

comparative coxier · superlative coxiest · alternative cocksy

1. obsoleteCocky.

   "Thou coxy, cackling candle!" said Catweazle. "Why dost thou titter?"

   1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 70

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   He's the coxiest young blackguard in the house—I always told you so.

   1857, [Thomas Hughes], “The War of Independence”, in Tom Brown’s School Days. […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, part I, page 202

   [H]e "couldn't abide a fellow who thought he made himself fine by being coxy to 's betters."

   1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Links”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 305

1. informaluncountablebiologyCoccidiosis.

   Now your laying birds, too, can have protection against cecal coccidiosis. AMPROL* SOLUTION can be safely given to all chickens at the first sign of coxy or when a diagnosis of coccidiosis has been made.

   1967, Canadian Poultry Review, volume 91, page 6

1. A nickname of the surname Cox.