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boxen.

Made of boxwood.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj
  1. Made of boxwood.

  2. Resembling box (the wood).

Where this word comes from

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

noun
  1. plural of box (“computer”)

    form-of · humorous · nonstandard · plural
Where this word comes from

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

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