Kex

Pronunciation

UK IPA: /kÉ›ks/

Alternative forms

kix

Origin

Origin unknown.

Full definition of kex

Noun

kex

(plural kexes)

(obsolete or dialectal) 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.----