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Definitions and meaning of fox

fox

Translingual

Symbol

fox

1. (international standards) ISO 639-5 language code for Formosan languages.

Etymology

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɒks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks

Noun

fox (plural foxes or (nonstandard, dialectal) foxen)

1. A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
   • 15^th 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.
2. 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).
3. The fur of a fox.
4. A fox terrier.
5. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
6. (slang, figurative) A cunning person.
8. (slang, figurative) A physically attractive man or woman.
9. (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
10. (nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
11. (mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
12. A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
13. (cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
14. (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
15. (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched.

Synonyms

• (a mammal related to dogs and wolves): tod
• (attractive man or woman): see also Thesaurus:beautiful woman

Hypernyms

• canid

Hyponyms

• vixen (feminine form), kit (young)

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Cheyenne: vóhkéso
• → Japanese: フォックス (fokkusu)
• → Maori: pōkiha

Translations

See also

• 🦊
• (canids) canid; coyote, dog, fox, jackal, wolf ^{(Category: en:Canids)}
• Reynard
• kitsune
• cub

References

Verb

fox (third-person singular simple present foxes, present participle foxing, simple past and past participle foxed)

1. (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
2. (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).

   This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.

3. (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
4. (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)

   The pages of the book show distinct foxing.

5. (transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
6. (intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
7. (transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
8. (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Fox in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Fox in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.

Anagrams

• Oxf.

Latin

Etymology

Early monophthongized variant of faux.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /foːks/, [foːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /foks/, [fɔks]

Noun

fōx f (genitive fōcis); third declension

1. Alternative form of faux (“throat, gorge”)

Inflection

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: fóce
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: fôs
  • Lombard: fos
  • Venetian: fuoza
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: foche, foghe; foxi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: fou
  • Occitan: foz
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: foz
  • Galician: foz
  • Portuguese: foz
  • Old Spanish: foç ⇒ fozino
    • Spanish: hoz, hocino

References

• 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

Alternative forms

• vox, wox

Etymology

From Old English fox, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔks/
• Rhymes: -ɔks

Noun

fox (plural foxes or fox)

1. A fox or its fur.
2. A liar or schemer.

Descendants

• English: fox
• Scots: fox
• Yola: voxe, vox

References

• “fox, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. Cognate with Old Frisian *foks, Old Saxon fohs, Old Dutch fus, Old High German fuhs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foks/

Noun

fox m

1. fox

Declension

Derived terms

• foxhol
• fyxen

Descendants

• Middle English: fox, vox, wox
  • English: fox
  • Scots: fox
  • Yola: voxe, vox

Old French

Alternative forms

• fols, fous

Adjective

fox

1. nominative and oblique masculine singular of fol

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fox.

Noun

fox m (plural focși)

1. fox terrier

Declension

Source: wiktionary.org