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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
Tamer Hassan

Meaning of "boxy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BOXY

boxy  [ˈbɒksɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOXY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Boxy is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES BOXY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of boxy in the English dictionary

The definition of boxy in the dictionary is squarish or chunky in style or appearance.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOXY


alkoxy
ælˈkɒksɪ
coxy
ˈkɒksɪ
doxie
ˈdɒksɪ
doxy
ˈdɒksɪ
epoxy
ɪˈpɒksɪ
ethoxy
eˈθɒksɪ
foxie
ˈfɒksɪ
foxy
ˈfɒksɪ
heterodoxy
ˈhetərədɒksɪ
hydroxy
haɪˈdrɒksɪ
methoxy
mɛˈθɒksɪ
monohydroxy
ˌmɒnəʊhaɪˈdrɒksɪ
moxie
ˈmɒksɪ
orthodoxy
ˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ
paradoxy
ˈpærəˌdɒksɪ
polyhydroxy
ˌpɒlɪhaɪˈdrɒksɪ
poxy
ˈpɒksɪ
proxy
ˈprɒksɪ
trihydroxy
ˌtraɪhaɪˈdrɒksɪ
unorthodoxy
ʌnˈɔːθəˌdɒksɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOXY

boxercise
boxers
boxfish
boxful
Boxgrove man
boxhaul
boxily
boxiness
boxing
Boxing Day
boxing glove
boxing match
boxing ring
boxkeeper
boxlike
boxroom
boxthorn
boxwallah
boxwood
boy

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOXY

active galaxy
apoplexy
cacodoxy
cataplexy
epitaxy
flaxy
galaxy
jaxy
mastopexy
mixy
Munchausen by proxy
Munchausen´s syndrome by proxy
pixy
prexy
radio galaxy
sexy
spiral galaxy
the Galaxy
unsexy
waxy

Synonyms and antonyms of boxy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «boxy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOXY

Find out the translation of boxy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of boxy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «boxy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

四四方方
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cuadrado
570 millions of speakers

English

boxy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

boxy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يشبه الصندوق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

квадратные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quadradão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

boxy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

carrée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Boxy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

boxy
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

箱型の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

박스형
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Boxy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hình hộp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாக்ஸி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॉक्सी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kutumsu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

boxy
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

boxy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

квадратні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cutiuta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

boxy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doos achtige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

boxy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

boxy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of boxy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOXY»

The term «boxy» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.960 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOXY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about boxy

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QUOTES WITH «BOXY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word boxy.
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Tamer Hassan
People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOXY»

Discover the use of boxy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to boxy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Just Cooking: Kristof and Stefan Boxy
Kristof and Stefan Boxy. 112. Fijne schijfjes runderfilet en ossenstaart Tranchettes de filet de bœuf et queue de Thin slices of beef fillet and oxtail with met eiervrucht en puree van maïs boeuf aux aubergines, purée de maïs egg plant and purée ...
‎2008
2
Boxy: A Tree of the Prairie
This is a story of stretching mere existence into survival and rebirth so as to succeed again and again. Boxy begins life as a seed carried forth by a prairie wind to sprout as a seedling in the muddy hoofprint of a deer.
Doug Daugherty, 2008
3
Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshift: Proceedings of ...
In the Milky Way, the boxy bulge is barlike. Long ago, de Vaucouleurs (1964) classified our Galaxy as SAB(rs)bc from a range of morphological arguments, and Gerhard (1997) has summarized the detailed recent evidence for the galactic  ...
J. E. BARNES (Ed), D.B. Sanders, 1999
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Galactic Astronomy
-2 -1 0 1 2 100a4/a -2 -1 Figure 4.39 Boxy galaxies frequently rotate very slowly, and then about an axis other than the apparent minor axis. The left panel shows that the indicative rotation rate (v/a)* [equation (11.14)] is invariably of order unity  ...
James Binney, Michael Merrifield, 1998
5
I'm Soxy Boxy. I'm a Cow, and I MOOOOO!!!
", "What kind of animal are you?" and "What sound do you make?" From the bright pictures to the clever rhyming, this book is sure to become a bedtime favorite for you and your little one!
‎2011
6
Rhinoplasty: An Atlas of Surgical Techniques
The boxy tip reflects the underlying large cephalic lateral crura while the ball tip adds vertically oriented convexity which reaches its apogee in the parenthesis tip whose parenthesis stigmata is the lateral border of the convex lateral crura.
Rollin K. Daniel, 2002
7
Rufus: The Tale of a Dog
Boxy was her dog. She gently cared for Boxy as a pup and became the surrogate mother. Some thought both Tresia and Boxy went a little too far, as Boxy was commonly seen wearing a T-shirt. The biker's jacket pushed reactions a bit further.
David McCune, 2012
8
Voyage of the Demon
Itwas Boxy's jobto know what wasgoing on around town, and what he heard whispered on the grapevine wasthat lovely Miss Ponti was not only making whoopee with the horny French businessman, Pierre Lafayette, newlyreturned from Paris, ...
Nigel Hogge, 2011
9
Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later: ...
B. H ̈außler, M. Gray and STAGES team Abstract Boxy and disky isophotes in elliptical galaxies are an imprint of their formation history. It is thus interesting to examine the boxyness of early-type galaxies as a function of environment in large ...
Ignacio Ferreras, Anna Pasquali, 2011
10
Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges (IAU S245)
For the observational evidence for the association of boxy bulges with bars, see Kuijken & Merrifield 1995, and Bureau & Freeman 1999. It is theoretically possible to have systems that appear boxy or peanut-shaped when seen edge- on but ...
International Astronomical Union. Symposium, Martin Bureau, E. Athanassoula, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOXY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term boxy is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Motor City Came Back From the Brink…and Left Most …
... and then proceed up Woodward Ave through Gilbert's properties, past the boxy white Opera House, Comerica Park (home of the Tigers), and ... «Mother Jones, Jul 15»
2
Engineers look to insects for robotic inspiration
Typical boxy robots would often get caught in grass. When fitted in an oval cockroachlike shell, the robots were able to successfully traverse the ... «HamiltonNews, Jul 15»
3
Plan calls for bridging the gap between Kansas City Crossroads and …
Seemingly six of the longest blocks in the whole city, lined with broken, weedy parking lots and boxy, industrial buildings. “It's visually ... «Kansas City Star, Jul 15»
4
Army and Air National Guard hope new projects shine brighter light …
The wind funnel (a boxy building about the size of two garages) captures wind and utilizes it. By next year it may provide another one-third of ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
5
Harlem's Studio Museum Taps David Adjaye to Design $122M …
The museum's current home on West 125th Street — a bank building it has occupied since 1982 — will be replaced with a series of boxy gray ... «Hyperallergic, Jul 15»
6
Editorial: Creative Corridors: Well-designed bridges represent civic …
“No frills” strikes us as being reminiscent of the boxy utilitarian designs of Soviet Eastern Berlin. Sure, they work, but who would want to look at ... «Winston-Salem Journal, Jul 15»
7
New Honda HR-V 2015 review
... the Qashqai are more distinctive. Having said that, the HR-V is a world away from its larger brother's awkward and boxy styling. Honda HR-V ... «AutoExpress, Jul 15»
8
EastBanc Condo Plan for Penn. & M Gets Mixed Reviews
Developer EastBanc presented its designs for a five-story, red-brick boxy building at Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street at the monthly meeting ... «Georgetowner, Jul 15»
9
5 Unusual free things on Craigslist Cleveland right now
"take my hot tub", "free fill dirt", and of course everyone is trying to unload those big, heavy, boxy televisions from the '90s. Every once and ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
10
2015 Subaru Forester Review : 2.0DL diesel CVT
This is an open and boxy cabin indeed, and that's going to appeal to the kids, as are the cup-holders in the ski port and the large door pockets. «CarAdvice, Jul 15»

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