What's a 'gox'?

[watervole]

I'm playing online Scrabble and I've just had the word 'gox' played against me.  It's obviously a valid word as the software accepted it.  But it left me wondering what a gox is.  I looked in Chambers online, but that didn't know the word (but then it's a pretty crap dictionary and fails to know lots of words).

A memory of Dr Seuss says: "When I box with my gox, I wear my gox, box socks", but I'm not sure that Dr Seuss words get into Scrabble.

So, without cheating and using a really good dictionary, tell me what you imagine the word 'gox' means.

Comments

[alex-holden.livejournal.com]

I've heard it used as an abbreviation for gaseous oxygen, as compared to LOX, liquid oxygen.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Hm, I only know of two meanings for that, and both are abbreviations (one is for Gaseous OXygen, and the other is for a bacterium whose exact spelling I don't remember.)

But it should mean something like "to bite in a fight, cf Evander Hollyfield's ear..."

[(Anonymous)]

I think you mean Gluconobacter Oxidans.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

That's the one

[jthijsen.livejournal.com]

I've cheated: according to wiktionary, that's exactly what gox means.

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a Dr. Seuss character who didn't make the cut.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Yeah.I can see woolly hair, a duck like snout and no hands, hooting in the wilderness.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I have no idea -- I had it played against me relatively recently.

[i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it should be an abbreviation for gored ox ...

frex, gox.

[sugoll.livejournal.com]

To me, it sounds like a US plural, c.f. pix.

[lexin.livejournal.com]

Multiple of 'gack' - gox.

So, what does it mean?

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

It isn't in the OED (and I do mean the full version)

[temeres.livejournal.com]

It's a cross between a gorilla and a fox. The gox is a six foot tall ape with red hair and a long bushy tail. It creeps out at night to rip the heads off chickens and lives entirely in my deranged imagination.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I think that's my favourite definition to date.

[melodyclark.livejournal.com]

Is that a nice thing to say about our American President?

Actually, it's too nice a thing. ;)

[temeres.livejournal.com]

Comparing a US President with a wild animal, real or imagined, is of course nothing less than an ill-considered insult. I therefore apologise to all wild animals everywhere for any distress I may have inadvertently caused.

[kremmen.livejournal.com]

The is why I avoid Scrabble. To play well, you have to commit to memory lots of "words" which really aren't words at all.