tox
See also: -tox- and tox-
English
Etymology
Clippings.
Pronunciation
Audio (southern England) (file)
Noun
tox
- (medicine, informal) Clipping of toxicity.
- GI tox ― gastrointestinal toxicity
- (informal) Clipping of toxicology.
- His tox screen came back positive.
- 2018 September 10, Jan Hoffman, “Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.”, in The New York Times:
- “How are you going to have a conversation around the patient’s positive tox screen results?” asked Dr. Lidya H. Wlasiuk, who teaches addiction awareness and interventions here at Boston University School of Medicine.
Adjective
tox (not comparable)
- (medicine, informal) Affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
- crashing tox patient
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *to-.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Adjective
tox (comparative daha tox, superlative ən tox)
- saturated, full, sated (not hungry)
- Toxun acdan nə xəbəri var? (proverb)
- The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry.
- (literally, “What does the full know of the hungry?”)
- Synonym: doyğun
- Antonym: ac
- well-fed, plump
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kök
- well off, not in need, living in material abundance
- Synonym: doyğun
- smug, snobby
- fed up (with something)
- Synonym: bezmiş
- (of colors) dark, saturated
- tox qırmızı ― dark red
- Synonym: tünd
- Antonym: açıq
Derived terms
- toxluq
Related terms
- doymaq
Further reading
- “tox” in Obastan.com.
French
Etymology
Clipping of toxicomane.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔks/
Noun
tox m or f by sense (plural tox)
- (slang) druggie, nitty
- 1998, Don Choa (lyrics), Fonky Family (music), “Sans faire couler le sang”, in Si Dieu Veut:
- Y'a rien de glorieux, ça c'est pour les tox
- There is nothing glorious, this is for the nitties.
- Synonyms: chlague, gbaneur, gbanman, drogué
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Salar
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *tiakïgu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tʰoχ]
Noun
tox
- chicken, hen
References
- 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “tox”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, OCLC 17467570, page 6