dox

dox

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bussa.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bussa terms

• doxx

Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒks

dox

1. (slang) plural of doc

dox pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.).
   • 1995, J Eric Chard, “Will Vinton's Playmation”, in comp.graphics.animation (Usenet):

     Why is it that, even after DECADES of carping from Jerry Pournelle, software companies STILL don't hire competent professionals to write their dox?

   • 2002, X, “this is getting old”, in houston.general (Usenet):

     its ok, someone emailed me his address, phone #, ss#, the works. seems theres^[sic] someone out there that dislikes him more than i do. i cant wait to hear how many people have his dox now. this should be really interesting...

   • 2004, Andrew D Kirch, “Here is something that will work for the rest of us”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet):

     judging by the lack of the 6 it would appear we have our spammer here, LETS^[sic] PULL HIS DOX!

dox (third-person singular simple present doxes, present participle doxing, simple past and past participle doxed)

1. Alternative spelling of doxx (“publish the personal information of (an individual) without their consent”).
   • 2025 March 18, Michael Gauthier, “Tesla Owners’ Personal Info Leaked On DOGEQuest Site, Musk Calls It Domestic Terrorism”, in Carscoops‎^[1]:

     According to reports, a doxing site has been launched with names and addresses of Tesla owners.

• hax
• vax

• do, dà

Inherited from Latin dulcem.

dox (feminine doce, masculine plural dox, feminine plural doces) (ORB, broad)

1. sweet
2. soft

   Antonym: dur

• adocir
• docement
• docior

• doux in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• dox in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

From Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂s- (compare Old Irish donn (“dark”), Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”).

• IPA^(key): /doks/

dox

1. dark, swarthy

• doxian

• Middle English: dosk
  • English: dusk

• doxx

Borrowed from English dox. First attested in the 2010's.

• Rhymes: -ɔks
• Hyphenation: dox

dox m (plural doxes)

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) dox (documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual)
   • 2011 October 31, Fabio Jordão, “DOX, a nova brincadeira maligna dos hackers”, in TecMundo‎^[2], São Paulo: NZN, archived from the original on 2 November 2011:

     A prática do dox não é exatamente um tipo de ataque hacker, mas sim a liberação de informações pessoais que o criminoso obteve durante uma invasão. Quando uma pessoa realiza um dox, ela pode divulgar nome completo, endereço, telefones, documentos, números de cartões de créditos, senhas e muitos outros detalhes sobre a vítima.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2019 August, “Ação!” (chapter 7), in Coletivo Planètes, transl., Formando um grupo de afinidade antifa: um manual‎^[3], Brazil, translation of Forming An Antifa Group by It's Going Down, archived from the original on 22 August 2024, page 22:

     Acompanhe o doxx com uma campanha de pressão: ligue para o trabalho do racista e tente fazer com que ele seja demitido, e informe os vizinhos através de campanhas de panfleto ou porta-a-porta.

     [original: Follow up the doxx with a pressure campaign: call their work and try to get them fired, and inform their neighbors through flyering or door-to-door campaigns.]

   • 2024 August 17, “A tática brutal das novas milícias digitais”, in Rôney Rodrigues, transl., Agência 5 – Jornal Floripa‎^[4], Florianópolis, translation of las milicias digitales de la ultraderecha by crisis, archived from the original on 23 January 2025:

     A ativista também costuma encomendar doxes deles.

     [original: La activista también suele encargarles doxeos.]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

dox

1. to walk

• Jean-Léopold Diouf (2003) Dictionnaire wolof-français et français-wolof, Éditions KARTHALA, →ISBN, page 110