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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒksə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: bäksʹər, IPA(key): /ˈbɑksɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɒksə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]boxer (plural boxers)
- A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
- You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.
- A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
- A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
- The person running a game of two-up.
- One who packs boxes.
- 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:
- They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]
- A letterboxer.
- Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
- 1987, Health, volume 19:
- Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]
- 2011, Jennie Allen, “Mad”, in Stuck Study: The Places We Get Stuck & the God Who Sets Us Free, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 38:
- My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.
- 2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
- The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.
Synonyms
[edit]- (participant in a boxing match): pugilist
- (type of engine): boxer engine
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]participant in a boxing match
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breed of dog
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type of internal combustion engine — see boxer engine
See also
[edit]- wrestler
Boxer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Boxer (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Named after its glove-like palps.
Noun
[edit]boxer
- an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed
Czech
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m anim
Declension
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m inan
Declension
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m (plural boxers, diminutive boxertje n)
- boxer (dog)
- boxer (engine)
- Short for boxershort.
- Nonstandard form of bokser.
French
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m (plural boxers)
- boxer (dog)
- boxer shorts, boxers
- boxer (engine)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]boxer
- to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of boxer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | boxer | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | boxant /bɔk.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | boxé /bɔk.se/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | boxe /bɔks/ |
boxes /bɔks/ |
boxe /bɔks/ |
boxons /bɔk.sɔ̃/ |
boxez /bɔk.se/ |
boxent /bɔks/ |
imperfect | boxais /bɔk.sɛ/ |
boxais /bɔk.sɛ/ |
boxait /bɔk.sɛ/ |
boxions /bɔk.sjɔ̃/ |
boxiez /bɔk.sje/ |
boxaient /bɔk.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | boxai /bɔk.se/ |
boxas /bɔk.sa/ |
boxa /bɔk.sa/ |
boxâmes /bɔk.sam/ |
boxâtes /bɔk.sat/ |
boxèrent /bɔk.sɛʁ/ | |
future | boxerai /bɔk.sə.ʁe/ |
boxeras /bɔk.sə.ʁa/ |
boxera /bɔk.sə.ʁa/ |
boxerons /bɔk.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
boxerez /bɔk.sə.ʁe/ |
boxeront /bɔk.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | boxerais /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ |
boxerais /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ |
boxerait /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ |
boxerions /bɔk.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
boxeriez /bɔk.sə.ʁje/ |
boxeraient /bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | boxe /bɔks/ |
boxes /bɔks/ |
boxe /bɔks/ |
boxions /bɔk.sjɔ̃/ |
boxiez /bɔk.sje/ |
boxent /bɔks/ |
imperfect2 | boxasse /bɔk.sas/ |
boxasses /bɔk.sas/ |
boxât /bɔk.sa/ |
boxassions /bɔk.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
boxassiez /bɔk.sa.sje/ |
boxassent /bɔk.sas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | boxe /bɔks/ |
— | boxons /bɔk.sɔ̃/ |
boxez /bɔk.se/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: boxar
Further reading
[edit]- “boxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m (invariable)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.
Noun
[edit]boxer m (invariable)
- boxer (dog)
Etymology 3
[edit]Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer engine.
Noun
[edit]boxer m (invariable)
- boxer (engine)
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]boxer
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: bo‧xer
Noun
[edit]boxer m (plural boxers)
- boxer (breed of dog)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)
Declension
[edit]Declension of boxer
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.
Noun
[edit]boxer m (plural boxeri)
- boxer (breed of dog)
Declension
[edit]Declension of boxer
References
[edit]- boxer in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]boxer m (plural boxers)
- (proscribed) Alternative spelling of bóxer
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