fox

== Translingual == === Etymology === Clipping of English Formosan, from Portuguese Formosa, with x as a placeholder. === Symbol === fox (international standards) ISO 639-5 language code for Formosan languages. == English == === 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”), 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'. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɒks/ (General American) IPA(key): /fɑks/ Rhymes: -ɒks === Noun === fox (countable and uncountable, plural foxes or (nonstandard, dialectal) foxen) A small-to-medium-sized canine mammal, related to dogs and wolves, with a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail, of the following groups: Any member of the genus Vulpes; a true fox. (in particular) The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur. Hyponyms: tod (“male fox”), vixen (“female fox”), kit (“young fox”) 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. Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon. Hypernym: canid (uncountable) The fur of a fox. A fox terrier. (Australia) A flying fox. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color. (figurative) A cunning person. (slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman. [from 1960s] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beautiful person, Thesaurus:beautiful man, Thesaurus:beautiful woman Hypernym: person Hyponyms: superfox, silver vixen, silver fox (slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically 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. (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. (military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched. (chiefly philosophy) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview. Antonym: hedgehog ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Fijian: fokisi → Japanese: フォックス (fokkusu) → Gullah: fox → Jamaican Creole: faks → Māori: pōkiha ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== 🦊 canids: coyote · dog · fox · jackal · wolf [edit] Reynard kitsune cub === Verb === 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). (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (transitive, dated) To cheat or rob. Quoted in 2000, John Lewes, Jock Lewes: Co-founder of the SAS (page 132) 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. (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See 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. (transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === 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 Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfoːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɔks] === Noun === fōx f (genitive fōcis); third declension alternative form of faux (“throat, gorge”) ==== Inflection ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === Adams, J. N. (2013), Social Variation and the Latin Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →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) A fox or its fur. 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 fox late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints, quoting Matthew 8:20 ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== foxhol fyxen ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: fox, vox, woxEnglish: foxScots: foxYola: voxe, vox == Old French == === Alternative forms === fols, fous === Adjective === fox nominative and oblique masculine singular of fol == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French fox. === Noun === fox m (plural focși) fox terrier ==== Declension ====