broxy

See also: BrOxy

English

Noun

broxy (uncountable)

1. A fatal disease of sheep.
   • 1889, Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Kansas:

     Mutton, the flesh of sheep, suffering with broxy or modified anthrax and erysipelas, from severe bruises obtained in transportation, will produce disease in those who eat it.

   • 1890, American Agriculturist - Volume 49, page 532:

     From the fact of the sheep having become thin in flesh before death, it is probably broxy.

   • 1967, Farming in Zambia - Volumes 3-6, page 11:

     Briefly, it may be stated that the whole of the Veterinary Service is geared to control and prevent the spread of certain diseases such as Anthrax, Broxy. Blackleg, Trypanosomiasis, Newcastle Disease and Rabies to name a few, by routine and regular vaccinations and inoculations.

2. (by extension) The meat from diseased sheep.
   • 1983, Anthony S. Wohl, Endangered lives: public health in Victorian Britain, →ISBN, page 50:

     If the rural poor ate birds then the urban poor ate pairings of tripe, slink (prematurely born calves), or broxy (diseased sheep).

   • 2002, Simon Schama, A History of Britain: The fate of empire 1776-2000, page 417:

     With the import of refrigerated meat the market among the poor for 'slink' (prematurely born calves) or 'broxy' (diseased sheep) mercifully contracted, although few families could have forgone tripe (cow's stomach lining.)

   • 2016 December, John Bellamy Foster, “Marx as a Food Theorist”, in Monthly Review, page 3:

     ...slink (prematurely born calves), or broxy (diseased sheep).

Anagrams

• Roxby