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chocolate-boxy

chocolate-boxy is the alternative form of chocolate-box.

Meaning of chocolate-box

Adjective

chocolate-box (comparative more chocolate-box, superlative most chocolate-box)

  1. (UK, derogatory) Having a twee picturesqueness.
    • He painted a chocolate-box picture for the Salon, entered it, was admitted.1961, Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth M Lawrence, Impressionism: golden decade

Forms of chocolate-boxy

comparativemore chocolate-boxy
superlativemost chocolate-boxy

Questions about chocolate-boxy

What is chocolate-boxy the alternative form of?
Chocolate-boxy is the alternative form of chocolate-box.

Words near chocolate-boxy in the dictionary

  1. chocolate vine
  2. chocolate vines
  3. chocolate wattled bat
  4. chocolate wattled bats
  5. chocolate-box
  6. chocolate-boxy
  7. chocolate-brown
  8. chocolate-chipper
  9. chocolate-chippers
  10. chocolate-chippy
  11. chocolate-lava cake

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chocolate-boxy (page history and authors); chocolate-box (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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