2020年3月31日 星期二

poxy, poxy bitch, unmaintained or otherwise unusable.

 
A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work

A Ventilator Stockpile, With One Hitch: Thousands Do Not Work

By DAVID E. SANGER, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and NICHOLAS KULISH
While President Trump has assured states that thousands of ventilators remain at the ready, thousands more are in storage, unmaintained or otherwise unusable.

No one in England has been called a “poxy bitch” for centuries. In Netherlands, it's a common in


















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Why Dutch swear words are so poxy



English insults often refer to sex; Dutch ones, to disease









poxy
adjective
 UK informal
UK 
 /ˈpɒk.si/ US 
 
/ˈpɑːk-/

having little valueimportance, or influence:
She lives in a poxy little village in the middle of nowhere.

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