adj
Meaning 1
Made of boxwood.
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Standard Lemma guide
boxen
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rhymes with -ɒksən
adj
Meaning 2
Resembling box (the wood).
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noun
Meaning 3
plural of box (“computer”)
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Usage: form-of, humorous, nonstandard, plural
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History
Etymology
From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen (“made of boxwood”), equivalent to box + -en.
From box (“computer”) + -en (archaic plural suffix), by analogy with VAXen and/or oxen.