boxer

See also: Boxer and bóxer

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɒksə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • (US) enPR: bäksʹər, IPA(key): /ˈbɑksɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒksə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From box +‎ -er.[1][2]

Noun

boxer (plural boxers)

  1. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
    You can tell she's a boxer by looking at her nose.
  2. A type of internal combustion engine in which cylinders are arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft.
  3. The person running a game of two-up.
  4. One who packs boxes.
    • 1917, Vocational Education Survey of Minneapolis, Minn, page 385:
      They look over the boxes that have been packed, pass judgment upon defects detected by the boxers, and O. K. the boxes […]
  5. A letterboxer.
  6. Attributive form of boxers (“boxer shorts”).
    • 1987, Health, volume 19:
      Jockey International, the major boxer maker, has a design for everyone: jungle prints featuring the irrepressible Garfield the cat peeping out between the leaves; […]
    • 2011, Jennie Allen, “Mad”, in Stuck Study: The Places We Get Stuck & the God Who Sets Us Free, Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 38:
      My husband, Zac, noticed my laundry shortcomings when his sock and boxer drawer came up empty, and kindly asked if I could please do some laundry.
    • 2012, “Dennis Miller”, in Ronald H. Dykes, “They Wouldn’t Let Us Win”: Jackson County, Alabama, Veterans Relive the Vietnam War, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 72:
      The boxer-type underwear would tear and get tangled up, and the brief kind would get too binding and hot, so we might not wear either.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2

From German Boxer, from boxen (“to box (strike with the fists)”) + -er.[3]

Noun

boxer (plural boxers)

  1. A breed of stocky, medium-sized, short-haired dog with a square-jawed muzzle.
Translations

References

  1. ^ “boxer, n.1”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “boxer, n.2”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  3. ^ “boxer, n.5”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

Named after its glove-like palps.

Noun

boxer

  1. an unqualified spider in spider fighting, a male with glove-like palps, instead used as a feed

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈboksɛr]

Noun

boxer m anim

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
  2. boxer (breed of dog)

Declension

Declension of boxer (hard masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative boxer boxeři
genitive boxera boxerů
dative boxerovi, boxeru boxerům
accusative boxera boxery
vocative boxere boxeři
locative boxerovi, boxeru boxerech
instrumental boxerem boxery

Noun

boxer m inan

  1. brass knuckles
  2. boxer engine

Declension

Declension of boxer (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative boxer boxery
genitive boxeru boxerů
dative boxeru boxerům
accusative boxer boxery
vocative boxere boxery
locative boxeru boxerech
instrumental boxerem boxery

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English boxer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.sər/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: boxer
  • Homophone: bokser

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers, diminutive boxertje n)

  1. boxer (dog)
  2. boxer (engine)
  3. short for boxershort
  4. nonstandard form of bokser

French

Etymology 1

From German Boxer.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.sɛʁ/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (dog)

Etymology 2

From English boxer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.sɛʁ/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer shorts, boxers
  2. boxer (engine)

Etymology 3

Adapted borrowing of English box +‎ -er.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk.se/

Verb

boxer

  1. to box (to fight against (a person) in a boxing match)
Conjugation
Conjugation of boxer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple boxer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple boxant
/bɔk.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle boxé
/bɔk.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present boxe
/bɔks/ 		boxes
/bɔks/ 		boxe
/bɔks/ 		boxons
/bɔk.sɔ̃/ 		boxez
/bɔk.se/ 		boxent
/bɔks/
imperfect boxais
/bɔk.sɛ/ 		boxais
/bɔk.sɛ/ 		boxait
/bɔk.sɛ/ 		boxions
/bɔk.sjɔ̃/ 		boxiez
/bɔk.sje/ 		boxaient
/bɔk.sɛ/
past historic2 boxai
/bɔk.se/ 		boxas
/bɔk.sa/ 		boxa
/bɔk.sa/ 		boxâmes
/bɔk.sam/ 		boxâtes
/bɔk.sat/ 		boxèrent
/bɔk.sɛʁ/
future boxerai
/bɔk.sə.ʁe/ 		boxeras
/bɔk.sə.ʁa/ 		boxera
/bɔk.sə.ʁa/ 		boxerons
/bɔk.sə.ʁɔ̃/ 		boxerez
/bɔk.sə.ʁe/ 		boxeront
/bɔk.sə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional boxerais
/bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ 		boxerais
/bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ 		boxerait
/bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/ 		boxerions
/bɔk.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		boxeriez
/bɔk.sə.ʁje/ 		boxeraient
/bɔk.sə.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present boxe
/bɔks/ 		boxes
/bɔks/ 		boxe
/bɔks/ 		boxions
/bɔk.sjɔ̃/ 		boxiez
/bɔk.sje/ 		boxent
/bɔks/
imperfect2 boxasse
/bɔk.sas/ 		boxasses
/bɔk.sas/ 		boxât
/bɔk.sa/ 		boxassions
/bɔk.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		boxassiez
/bɔk.sa.sje/ 		boxassent
/bɔk.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — boxe
/bɔks/ 		— boxons
/bɔk.sɔ̃/ 		boxez
/bɔk.se/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
past historic → present perfect
past anterior → pluperfect
imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants
  • → Catalan: boxar

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “boxer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer shorts.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔkser/

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer shorts, boxers

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer (dog)

Etymology 3

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping from English boxer engine.

Noun

boxer m (invariable)

  1. boxer (engine)

Norman

Etymology

From English box +‎ -er.

Verb

boxer

  1. (Jersey) to box

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seʁ/ [ˈbɔk.seχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk.seɻ/

  • Hyphenation: bo‧xer

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French boxeur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbok.ser/

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri, feminine equivalent boxeră)

  1. boxer (participant in a boxing match)
    Synonym: pugilist
Declension
Declension of boxer
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative boxer boxerul boxeri boxerii
genitive-dative boxer boxerului boxeri boxerilor
vocative boxerule boxerilor

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English boxer, French boxer, German Boxer.

Noun

boxer m (plural boxeri)

  1. boxer (breed of dog)
Declension
Declension of boxer
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative boxer boxerul boxeri boxerii
genitive-dative boxer boxerului boxeri boxerilor
vocative boxerule boxerilor

References

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboɡseɾ/ [ˈboɣ̞.seɾ]
  • Rhymes: -oɡseɾ
  • Syllabification: bo‧xer

Noun

boxer m (plural boxers)

  1. (proscribed) alternative spelling of bóxer
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