tox

See also: -tox- and tox-

English

Etymology

Clippings.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

tox

1. (medicine, informal) Clipping of toxicity.

   GI tox ― gastrointestinal toxicity

2. (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^[1]:

     “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)

1. (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)

1. saturated, full, sated (not hungry)

   Synonym: doyğun

   Antonym: ac

   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?”)

2. well-fed, plump

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kök

3. well off, not in need, living in material abundance

   Synonym: doyğun

4. smug, snobby
5. fed up (with something)

   Synonym: bezmiş

6. (of colors) dark, saturated

   Synonym: tünd

   Antonym: açıq

   tox qırmızı ― dark red

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)

1. (slang) druggie, nitty

   Synonyms: chlague, gbaneur, gbanman, drogué

   • 1998, “Sans faire couler le sang”, in Don Choa (lyrics), Fonky Family (music), Si Dieu Veut:

     Y’a rien de glorieux, ça c’est pour les tox

     There is nothing glorious, this is for the nitties.

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tiakïgu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰoχ]

Noun

tox

1. chicken, hen

References

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985) “tox”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[2], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 6