fox

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

foxesfoxen

1.
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:
2.
(uncountable)The fur of a fox.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A fox terrier.
4.
(Australia, countable, uncountable)A flying fox.
5.
(countable, uncountable)The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
6.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) A cunning person.
7.
(countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)(slang, figurative) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
Đồng nghĩa: beaut, beauty, bobby-dazzler, crumpet, dish, 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, dreamboat, himbo, hunk, lady-killer, man-meat, pretty boy, rizzler, spunk, stud, stud muffin, superhunk, twink, angel, babe, beauty, 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, looker, lovely, odalisque, peng ting, piece of crumpet, pretty, stoater, stunner, stunna, tchotchke, ten, vixen
8.
(countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)(slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
11.
(countable, uncountable)A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
12.
(countable, uncountable)(cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card.

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verb

V_es/s

foxes

V_ing/Gerund

foxing

V_ed/pp

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.
(dated, transitive)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.
(intransitive)To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
The pages of the book show distinct foxing.
6.
(transitive)To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
7.
(intransitive)To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
8.
(transitive)To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
9.
(transitive)To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

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beaut beautybobby-dazzlercrumpetdish dreamboateye candygood lookerlooker lulusex on a sticksex on legssmoke showstunnastunner beefcakebona omiChad chickenchick magnet

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Abyssinian foxAfghan foxAfrican sand foxAnadyr foxfox toxquick as a foxAndean foxantifoxArctic foxAzara's foxBaluchistan foxbastard foxbat-eared foxBengal foxblack foxBlanford's foxblue foxbrant-foxCalifornia Channel Island foxcama fox

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (fox), from *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (fox), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (the tailed one), possibly from *puḱ- (tail). 2 cog Cognate with vox, voxe (fox), foos, Foaks, foks, Fuchs, Fugs, fuksch, fuks, fòcks, vucks (fox), Fuchs, vucs, vuks (fox), Fuss, buks, vuks (fox), vos, Fuchs, Voss, Fuuss, füks,, fúa, 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍉;