foxhole

See also: fox hole

English

Etymology

From Old English foxhol, equivalent to fox +‎ hole.

Noun

foxhole (plural foxholes)

1. The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
2. (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
   • 1962: Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880–1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry (Columbia University Press), page 378:

     The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes” is absurd. Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.

Synonyms

• dugout
• fighting hole
• spider hole

Translations

fox's burrow

• Danish: rævegrav (da) c
• Dutch: vossenhol n
• Finnish: ketunkolo
• French: renardière (fr) f
• Hungarian: rókalyuk (hu)
• Japanese: 狐塚 (きつねづか, kitsunezuka)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: revehi n

  Nynorsk: revehi n

• Old English: foxhol n
• Russian: ли́сья нора́ f (lísʹja norá)

small pit dug into the ground as a shelter

• Dutch: schuttersputje (nl) n
• Finnish: potero (fi)
• French: tranchée (fr) f, trou de tirailleur m
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• Japanese: 蛸壷 (たこつぼ, takotsubo)
• Russian: око́п (ru) m (okóp)