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pox:
Or: the pox : Historically, a term for a variety of pustular and venereal illnesses, particularly syphilis . Pox take you! / Pox on't! Are Shakespearean curses wishing syphilis on someone. See syphilis for synonyms.

QUOTE: Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) cursing Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood) in The Great Race (1965): ' The pox on you! ' Does he mean the pox or small pox?




See Also: pox, poxy, poxed, Reverend Knox, Reverend Ronald Knox, band in the box, cardboard box, coachman on the box, dose, English malady, French fever, French crown, French ache(s), French disease, French goods, French gout, French measles, French pig, Spanish pip, Spanish gout, Spanish needle, token, Winchester goose, acyclovir, Nervo and Knox, Jack in the box,

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pound the pud
pound the sidewalk
pound the street
poundcake
poundering complexities
pounders
pounding off
pounding the bald-headed moose
pounding the flounder
pounding the pud
pounding the pudding
pouter
pouve
pow-wow with the one-eyed Redskin
powder one's nose
powder ones puff
powder-room
power beads
power exchange
power U
  pox doctor
 pox-ridden
 poxed
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 PPNG
 prack
 practice nudism
 practicing one's mantra
 practising
 prairie oysters
 praising the orchid
 praline
 prang
 pranny
 prat
 prats
 pratt
 pratt-hunter
 pratt-man
 prattle box
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