pox /poks/

1. (usu as combining form) any of several virus diseases causing a rash of pustules (as in chickenpox, cowpox)
2. Smallpox (archaic)
3. Syphilis (informal; also formerly, great pox, French pox, Spanish pox)
4. Sheep-pox

To infect with pox, ie, usu, syphilis

poxˈy adjective

1. Suffering from pox
2. Spotty
3. Dirty, diseased, rotten (informal)
4. Applied in irritation to anything unpleasant, contemptible or troublesome (informal)

poxˈvirus noun

Any one of a group of DNA-containing animal viruses, including those which cause smallpox, cowpox, myxomatosis and certain fibromata

a pox on (or of), a pox take, etc (archaic)

A plague on, curse (so-and-so, such-and-such), used as an imprecation

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