English Explanatory Dictionary

dox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. plural of doc
noun
  1. Documents, especially information sought by hackers about an individual (address, credit card numbers, etc.).
verb
  1. Alternative spelling of doxx (“publish the personal information of (an individual) without their consent”).
name
  1. A surname

Pronunciation

En-au-dox.ogg

Word forms

dox doxx doxes doxing doxed

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der. Proto-Italic *dokeō Latin doceō Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-məntom Latin -mentum Latin documentumlbor. Middle French documentbor. English document English docs English dox Phonetic respelling of docs, which is a short form of documents.

Related words

hax vax

Derived words

Czapek-Dox medium
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