Word.ws English Dictionary

pox parties

pox parties is the plural of pox party.

Meaning of pox party

Noun

pox party (plural pox parties)

  1. Such a party for children, to spread a disease whose consequences are less for children than adults, and which confers lifetime immunity.
  2. Such a party for people in general, to spread disease so that they may get it over with, and acquire temporary or long-term immunity. This may allow them to have disease knowingly under controlled circumstances where they may be isolated during the course of disease, and not infect others unknowingly. That may result in protection for vulnerable members of their social circle that they can isolate from the general public, by being the immunized gatekeeper.

Questions about pox parties

What is pox parties the plural of?
Pox parties is the plural of pox party.

Words near pox parties in the dictionary

  1. powwows
  2. Powys
  3. Powyses
  4. pox
  5. pox doctor's clerk
  6. pox parties
  7. pox party
  8. poxed
  9. poxes
  10. poxier
  11. poxiest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pox parties (page history and authors); pox party (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pox parties.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pox_parties. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.