Ochs

From Middle High German ohse, from Old High German ohso.

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /oxs/

Ochs m (plural Ochse)

1. ox; bullock
   • 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     Uh, wie n'er brület! Wie n'en Ochs, we me ne wot metzge.

     Ugh, how he bellows! Like an ox that's about to be slaughtered.

• IPA^(key): /ɔks/

Ochs m (weak, genitive Ochsen, plural Ochsen)

1. (regional or poetic) alternative form of Ochse (“ox”)
   • Den Sozialismus in seinem Lauf / hält weder Ochs noch Esel auf.

     Socialism in its course will be stopped neither by oxen nor by donkeys.

     Socialist slogan, famously quoted by Erich Honecker in August 1989

• “Ochs” in Duden online

From Central Franconian Ohs, from Middle High German ohse, from Old High German ohso, from Proto-West Germanic *ohsō, from Proto-Germanic *uhsô, from Proto-Indo-European *uksḗn.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈoks/
• Rhymes: -oks
• Syllabification: Ochs

Ochs m (plural Ochse, diminutive Echsje)

1. ox (adult castrated male of cattle)

   Coordinate terms: Kuh (“cow”), Stier (“bull”)

Borrowed from German Ochse. The originally Luxembourgish form is Uess, which is still in use, but now less common.

• IPA^(key): /oks/

Ochs m (plural Ochsen)

1. ox

   Synonym: Uess

2. (colloquial) idiot

   Kuck dach, wuer s de trëppels, du Ochs! ― Look where you're walking, you idiot!