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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-1124/
- Published: 2023-02-26T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-18T18:08:17.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:34

The word for today is…

dox (verb – informal):

: to publicly identify or publish private information about (someone) especially as a form of punishment or revenge

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dox?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Dox is a respelling of docs, plural of doc (short for document), verbal derivative based on earlier dropping docs, doc-dropping, etc., describing the same act. It’s first known use was in 2009

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