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Boxen

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Made of boxwood.
  2. 2
    Resembling box (the wood).
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of box (“computer”) form-of, humorous, nonstandard, plural

    "Reality: Sun and HP are hardware companies. They make boxen."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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