fox
Pronunciation: /fɒks/
The English word “fox” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox.
- The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
- Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
- The fur of a fox.
- A fox terrier.
- A flying fox.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- A cunning person.
- A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
- A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
- A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- Air-to-air weapon launched.
- Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
verb
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”). Cognates Cognate with Yola vox, voxe (“fox”), North Frisian foos (“fox”), Saterland Frisian Foaks (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Alemannic German Fuchs, Fugs, fuksch, fuks, fòcks, vucks…
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