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Vinony

fox

noun

  1. small to medium-sized omnivorous mammal belonging to the family Canidae
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verb

  1. to delude, con
  2. become discolored
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fɒks/ / /fɔks/ / /fɑks/

name

Etymology: * (surname): From fox (“a vulpine animal”)

  1. A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.
  2. A male given name.
  3. Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network in the United States.

    “I watched a great show on Fox last night.”

    “In some ways, it’s a pragmatic practice: Fox anchors such as Sean Hannity and, at one point, Tucker Carlson routinely attack Milley – and during the Trump years, there was also a reasonable expectation that the president would be talking to the hosts of those shows.”

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  16. Ellipsis of Fox Tribe.
  17. Ellipsis of Fox language.

noun

Etymology: * (surname): From fox (“a vulpine animal”)

  1. Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

    “The Foxes played with plenty of initiative in the original tie at the Walkers Stadium and they started this tie in impressively positive fashion, producing the game's first two chances: Andy King's goal-bound half-volley from Steve Howard's header down was tipped over by Joe Hart and Sol Bamba headed the resultant corner wide.”

  2. Ellipsis of Fox Indian (“a member of the Outagamie or Meskwaki, a Native American people”).

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz Old English fox Middle English fox English fox 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”), North Frisian foos, fos (“fox”), Saterland Frisian Foaks (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), 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”)). Philosophical sense from the 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin. Military aviation sense from the pre-NATO military spelling alphabet where Fox represented F and was short for 'to fire'.

  1. To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.

    “I see a number of gallants every where, whoſe incomes come in yearely by ſet numbers, but runne out daily, ſans number. […] And when I ſee them often foxed, me thinke the Proverbe ſutes thoſe ſutes, what is the fox but his caſe? I ſhould thinke them to be Eutrapelus his enemies, whom he cloathed richly to make them ſpend freely, and grow deboſhed.”

  2. To confuse or baffle (someone).

    “This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.”

  3. To act slyly or craftily.
  4. To cheat or rob.

    “Have you any news of Miriam? As I have had no reply to my delicately worded epistle, I can only presume that you foxed me with the wrong address, and that you are yourself already engaged to be married to her.”

  5. To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)

    “The pages of the book show distinct foxing.”

  6. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
  7. To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
  8. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.

    “I drank […] so much wine that I was almost foxed.”

  9. To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.