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THE PLURAL OF OX IS OXEN SO THE PLURAL OF BOX IS BOXEN
Quick Sam lets hide behind those boxen so the guards to catch us
The Plural for Box, Stated by Brian Regan in his "Stupid In School" Standup,
Country of origin: Brian Regan in Grade School
Something rotten in the state of Denmark.
"Its pure boxen" - "I feel boxen today" - "You've gone all boxen" - "Im in a Boxen state of mind"
n. pl. Two or more dirty, money-hungry, scandalous, stuck-up women.
You better wrap the rascal if you're going to get with one of those boxen.
An alternative pluralization of boxes. In 60-80s hacker lingo (when hacker ment something very different, btw), it originated from vax/vaxen (the, at the time, correct way to referr to two or more vax computers). Because of this unusual pluralization, it because common to use -en instead of -es or whatever else was correct for all words ending in x or with an x sound, such as soxen or socksen for more then one sock. Box was/is usually referring to a computer (pc, server, workstation, whatever).
Our server farm runs on 25 boxen.
Plural for box or computer. Usually PCs.
My friend and I just fixed a shitload of windows boxen.
alternate pluralization of the singular noun "box," as opposed to the correct "boxes," made famous by comedian brian reagan
teacher: Brian, what's the plural of
"ox?"
Brian: duh....i dunno
T: no Brian, it's "oxen." Now Brian, what's the plural of "box?"
B: uh...."boxen," I bought two "boxen" of doughnuts.