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Vex vs Kex - What's the difference?

vex | kex |

As nouns the difference between vex and kex

is that vex is initialism of w:Venus Express|Venus Express|lang=en while kex is the dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.

As a verb vex

is to trouble aggressively, to harass.

vex

English

Verb

(es)
  • To trouble aggressively, to harass.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XII:
    • In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregacion, to vexe them.
  • To annoy, irritate.
    • Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
  • To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
  • (rare) To twist, to weave.
  • * Dryden
    • some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
  • (obsolete) To be irritated; to fret.
    • (Chapman)
  • To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "vex")

    Synonyms

    * (to annoy) agitate, irritate * (to cause mental suffering) afflict, torment

    Derived terms

    * vexed * vexer * vexingly * vexation * vexatious

    kex

    English

    Alternative forms

    * kix

    Noun

    (kexes)
  • The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
  • (obsolete, botany) A plant having such a stem; a weed, a kecksy.
  • (rare) A dry husk or covering.
  • * 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 100-101:
    • 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 .
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