fox
Translingual[edit]
Symbol[edit]
fox
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).
Cognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɒks/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fɑks/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒks
Noun[edit]
fox (plural foxes or (nonstandard, dialectal) foxen)
- A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
- 15th century, The Fox, verse 1:
- The fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The First Gun”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 1:
- They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
- 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 164:
- It was earliest morning, when even small trees cast long shadows and scarlet foxes trot denward through the dew like flecks of fire.
- Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
- The fur of a fox.
- A fox terrier.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- (slang, figurative) A cunning person.
- (slang, figurative) A physically attractive man or woman.
- 1993, Laura Antoniou, The Marketplace, page 90:
- And Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.
- 2012, Adele Parks, Still Thinking of You:
- It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together.
- (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
- (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- 2006, H. Ward Silver, The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual:
- Locating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years.
- (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
- Thou diest on point of fox.
- (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.[1]
- 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark:
- Got a lock! Fox, Fox!
Synonyms[edit]
- (a mammal related to dogs and wolves): tod
- (attractive man or woman): see also Thesaurus:beautiful woman
Hypernyms[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
- Arctic fox
- bat-eared fox
- Bengal fox
- blue fox
- brant-fox
- California Channel Island fox
- Cape fox
- Channel Island fox
- coast fox
- corsac fox
- crab-eating fox
- Darwin's fox
- desert fox
- dog fox
- dog-fox
- fennec fox
- firefox
- flying fox
- Fox
- foxaline
- fox and geese
- fox-bat
- fox bat
- foxberry
- fox bolt
- fox caller
- fox cub
- fox dog
- foxery
- fox evil
- fox eye
- foxfire, fox fire, fox-fire
- fox fur
- foxglove
- fox-glove
- fox grape
- fox hole
- foxhole
- foxhound
- fox hunt
- fox-hunter
- fox hunting
- foxie
- foxish
- Fox Islands
- foxlike
- foxling
- foxly
- fox maggot
- fox mark
- fox message
- fox moth
- fox plum
- Fox River
- fox sedge
- fox shark
- foxship
- fox sleep, fox's sleep
- fox snake, foxsnake
- fox sparrow
- fox squirrel
- fox's socks
- Fox Street
- foxtail
- fox terrier
- fox tossing
- fox trot
- fox-trot / fox trot / foxtrot
- fox wedge
- fox whistle
- foxy
- gray fox, grey fox
- insular gray fox / insular grey fox
- island fox
- island gray fox / island grey fox
- kit fox
- outfox
- Patagonian fox
- Patagonian gray fox / Patagonian grey fox
- polar fox
- red fox
- sand fox
- sea fox
- short-tailed fox
- silver fox
- sly fox
- smell fox
- smooth fox terrier
- snow fox
- soft fox sedge
- South American gray fox / South American grey fox
- Spanish fox
- stone-cold fox
- swift fox
- Tibetan fox
- white fox
- wire fox terrier
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “BREVITY Multiservice Brevity Codes”, in discover.dtic.mil[1], Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), 1 February 2002, archived from the original on 2015-11-17
Verb[edit]
fox (third-person singular simple present foxes, present participle foxing, simple past and past participle foxed)
- (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
- This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
- (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
- (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
- (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- 1661 October 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 29th, 1661 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:
- I drank […] so much wine that I was almost foxed.
- (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
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Further reading[edit]
Fox in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Fox in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Early monophthongized variant of faux.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fōx f (genitive fōcis); third declension
- Alternative form of faux (“throat, gorge”)
Inflection[edit]
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fōx | fōcēs |
Genitive | fōcis | fōcium |
Dative | fōcī | fōcibus |
Accusative | fōcem | fōcēs fōcīs |
Ablative | fōce | fōcibus |
Vocative | fōx | fōcēs |
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- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: fóce
- North Italian:
- Insular Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References[edit]
- Adams, J. N. (2013) Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “faux”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 242
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English fox, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fox (plural foxes or fox)
- A fox or its fur.
- A liar or schemer.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “fox, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. Cognate with Old Frisian *foks, Old Saxon fohs, Old Dutch fus, Old High German fuhs.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fox m
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Old French[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
fox
- nominative and oblique masculine singular of fol
Romanian[edit]
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Noun[edit]
fox m (plural focși)
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