Noun: kex
Sample Sentences
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"I suppose you'll want a dish o' tay, or victuals of some sort, hey? […] I should be as dry as kex wi' travelling so far." [1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:]
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On the bedside table a new package of cigarettes and a traveling clock had for neighbor a nicely wrapped box containing the green figurine of a girl skier which shone through the double kix. [1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 100–101:]
Nouns inflected like kex
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English kex. Origin unknown; but compare Welsh cecys (“hollow stalks”) and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”), apparently from the same source as Latin cicūta (“hemlock”). See: Middle English Nouns '
kex', Latin Nouns '
cicūta'.
Verbs referencing "kex"
Latin Nouns
cicuta.