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name
A surname transferred from the common noun derived from the name of the animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A male given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Fox Broadcasting Company, a large television network in the United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, media
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, a tributary to the Illinois River.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Stone County, Arkansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Estill County, Kentucky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Roseau County, Minnesota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carbon County, Montana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pickaway County, Ohio.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Grant County, Oregon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Fox Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A locality in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Ellipsis of Fox Tribe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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name
Ellipsis of Fox language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
The red fox, a small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes) with red or silver fur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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:
Other canines that resemble true foxes, of the genera Cerdocyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, and Urocyon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Broader terms: canid
noun
The fur of a fox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A fox terrier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A flying fox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, countable, uncountable
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noun
The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A cunning person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: beaut, beauty, bobby-dazzler, crumpet, dish, vision, dreamboat, eye candy, good looker, looker, lulu, sex on a stick, sex on legs, smoke show, stunna, stunner, beefcake, bona omi, Chad, chicken, chick magnet, dimber cove, himbo, hunk, lady-killer, man-meat, pretty boy, rizzler, spunk, stud, stud muffin, superhunk, twink, angel, babe, belle, betty, bit of crumpet, bomb, bombshell, cookie, cupcake, cutie, dimber mort, doll, enchantress, femme fatale, fox, goddess, golden girl, HB, hottie, houri, jelly, knockout, lovely, odalisque, peng ting, piece of crumpet, pretty, stoater, tchotchke, ten, vixen
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person
noun
A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable
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noun
A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, mechanical-engineering, mechanics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The fourteenth Lenormand card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cartomancy, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Air-to-air weapon launched.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, war
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noun
Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: hedgehog
noun
A radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter F.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAF
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Synonyms: Foxtrot
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Someone connected with Leicester City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
Ellipsis of Fox Indian (“a member of the Outagamie or Meskwaki, a Native American people”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, dated, ellipsis
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noun
Acronym of forkhead box protein.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, genetics, medicine, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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verb
To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To confuse or baffle (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To act slyly or craftily.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To cheat or rob.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, transitive
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verb
To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: canine, canid
Narrower terms: vixen, Reynard, red fox, Vulpes vulpes, Vulpes fulva, kit fox, prairie fox, Vulpes velox, Vulpes macrotis, Arctic fox, white fox, Alopex lagopus, grey fox, gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargenteus
noun
the Algonquian language of the Fox
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language
noun
a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin
noun
a shifty deceptive person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: dodger, slyboots
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker
noun
English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: George Fox
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: religious person
noun
English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Charles James Fox
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: statesman, solon, national leader
noun
the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fur, pelt
verb
become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spot
verb
be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: confuse, throw, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: be
Narrower terms: demoralize, perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound, disorient, disorientate
verb
deceive somebody
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, pull a fast one on, play a trick on
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
Narrower terms: snooker
History
* (surname): From fox (“a vulpine animal”)
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'.
Across languages
546 source translations are retained for this English entry.
