Cox vs. Pox — What's the Difference?

A coxswain.

Any of several viral diseases producing a rash of pimples that become pus-filled and leave pockmarks on healing.

To act as coxswain or serve as coxswain for.

A disease such as chickenpox or smallpox, characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

A coxswain of a boat, especially of a racing crew.

Syphilis.

(ambitransitive) To act as coxswain for.

Misfortune or calamity.

A coxcomb; a simpleton; a gull.

A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

Either of two related enzymes that control the production of prostaglandins and are blocked by aspirin

Syphilis.

The helmsman of a ship's boat or a racing crew

(figurative) A curse.

Act as the coxswain, in a boat race

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, - the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

A common venereal disease caused by the Treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta)

A contagious disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pock marks