💩 Very poor quality 😠 Worthless person 😷 Marked by disease 🤒 Smallpox sufferer

poxy

9.9

Having many small scars on the skin from smallpox

adjective
/ˈpɑksi/

Archaic

: variolado

In the old text, the term 'poxy' was used to describe those afflicted with smallpox in the village.

Examples

Eamon looked into her broad, poxy face and searched out her eyes.

Fiction book (1998)
The artist depicted a poxy face, illustrating the effects of the disease on the unfortunate subject.
She cringed as she realized she had developed a poxy complexion after the illness.

Synonyms

variolate

vspoxy

Specialized

9.9

Skin that has small round scars from smallpox

is the older word for the same smallpox marking

poxed

vspoxy

Archaic

9.9

Having a disease that causes sores on the skin like smallpox

refers specifically to marks caused by smallpox rather than any pox

pocked

vspoxy

7.5

Having many small pits or scars, often on the skin

focuses on marks from smallpox specifically rather than unspecified causes

pockmarked

vspoxy

7.4

Covered with many small holes or scars

is limited to marks from smallpox rather than general damage or wear

Antonyms

healthy

695 1.0

In good body and mind condition without sickness or injury

unmarked

43 4.3

Having no mark or label to show who it belongs to

Compounds

poxy weather

9.1

Unpleasant wet and cold weather that makes you feel miserable

Surface Forms

poxy positive

Morphology

poxy = pox (transparent) = pox + y

Direct adjective formation from the noun 'pox' meaning 'affected by pox', which is straightforward for learners.

Etymology

Poxy comes from the old word pox, the disease with blisters like 'smallpox', so it originally described skin or a face covered in the marks of that disease.