Fox

Noun

 * 1) A red fox, small carnivore, related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
 * 2) Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
 * 3) The fur of a fox or fox fur.
 * 4) A fox terrier.
 * 5) The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
 * 6) A cunning person.
 * 7)  An attractive man or woman.
 * 8)  A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
 * 9)  A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.

Derived terms

 * crazy like a fox
 * fox grape
 * Fox Islands
 * Fox River
 * fox snake
 * fox sparrow
 * fox squirrel
 * fox terrier
 * fox trot
 * foxaline
 * foxery
 * foxfire
 * fox-fire


 * fox-fur
 * fox-furred
 * foxglove
 * foxhole
 * fox-hole
 * foxhound
 * fox-hunt
 * foxish
 * foxless
 * fox-like
 * foxling
 * foxly
 * fox-mark


 * foxship
 * foxtail
 * foxtailed
 * foxter
 * foxtrot/fox-trot
 * foxy
 * firefox
 * kit fox
 * red fox
 * silver fox
 * sly as a fox

Verb

 * 1)  To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
 * 2)  To confuse or baffle (someone).
 * This crossword puzzle has completely foxed me.
 * 1)  To act slyly or craftily.
 * 2)  To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity.
 * The pages of the book show distinct foxing.

Derived terms

 * outfox

Adjectives for Fox
stealthy; caverned; cunning; loping; sly; sleek; slinking.

Verbs for Fox
chase —; ensnare —; farm —; pursue —; raise —es; skin —; trap —; — burrows; — claws; — darts; — digs; — displays; — excavates; — fools; — leaps; — outwits; — preys on; — roams; — tricks.

Thesaurus
African hunting dog, Artful Dodger, Cape hunting dog, Philadelphia lawyer, Yankee horse trader, brush wolf, charmer, coyote, crafty rascal, dingo, dodger, glib tongue, horse trader, hyena, jackal, lobo, medicine wolf, prairie wolf, reynard, shyster, slick citizen, sly dog, slyboots, sweet talker, swindler, timber wolf, trickster, wolf

Etymology
fox:, from *fuhsaz (compare  foks:,  vos:,  Fuchs:), from  *puk-so 'tail' (compare  puchŭ 'down', Latvian pušķis 'tuft', Tocharian B pako 'tail',  púccha 'tail').

Noun

 * Afrikaans: vos jakkals
 * Ainu:, ,
 * Alabama: chola
 * Albanian: dhelpër, dhelpra
 * Arabic: ثعلب
 * Arapaho: nouː, beːχou
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Asturian: raposu
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: azeri
 * Belarusian: ліса
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: louarn, louarned
 * Bulgarian:
 * Carrier: naŋʌz
 * Catalan: guineu, guilla , rabosa
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 狐狸
 * Choctaw:
 * Chuvash:
 * Cornish:
 * Cree: ᒪᕁᐁᓰᐢ (mahkesiis)
 * Creek: culv
 * Crimean Tatar: tilki
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: ривезь (rivezj)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: abei
 * Faroese: revur
 * Finnish:
 * Flathead: χʷaχʷáʕ
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: bolp, volp
 * Gagauz:
 * Galician: raposo, golpe
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Middle High German: vuhs (also, vuohs)
 * Middle Low German: vos (also, vohe; vō)
 * Gothic:
 * Greek: αλεπού
 * Ancient: ,
 * Hebrew: שׁוּעָל (šu‘al)
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: rubah
 * Inuktitut: ᑎᕆᒐᓐᓂᐊᖅ (tiriganniaq)
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 狐, キツネ
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas:
 * Khmer: បញ្ឆោត, កញ្ជ្រោង
 * Klamath-Modoc: w̓an
 * Korean: 여우
 * Kumyk:
 * Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: volp
 * Lakota: tokalu, šungila
 * Lao: ຈິກຈອກ
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: lapsa


 * Lenape: ɔkwǝs
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Lower Sorbian: liška
 * Macedonian: лисица
 * Malay: rubah
 * Maltese:
 * Manx:
 * Marathi: कोल्हा
 * Middle Dutch: vos
 * Middle English: foxe
 * Mingo: unõˀkwatkwá
 * Mohawk: tsitsho
 * Moksha: келазь (kelazj)
 * Navajo:
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: foxe
 * O'odham:
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Ojibwe: ᐙᑯᔥ (waagosh)
 * Old English:
 * Old High German: fuhs, fō̮ha
 * Old Norse: fōa
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor:
 * Iron:
 * Pawnee: kiwʌ́ku
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, raposa-vermelha
 * Romagnolo: vùlpa
 * Romani: hilpa
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: vulp
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sami: rieban
 * Sardinian: mrexani, fraitzu, liori, grupi
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:, лисaц
 * Roman: lisica, lisac
 * Seri: χæːs
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: líška
 * Slovene: lisica, lisjak
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sumerian: ka₅
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: alamid
 * Tajik: рӯбоҳ
 * Tamil: நரி (nari)
 * Taos: tùxwána
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: నక్క (nakka)
 * Thai:
 * Tlingit: nɑġʌs’é
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: лис, лисиця
 * Upper Sorbian: liška
 * Urdu: لومڑی
 * Uyghur: تۈلكە
 * Uzbek: tulki
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: renar,  hirenar,  jirenar,  renarül,  foxaf
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: foks
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish: ,
 * Yucatec: ohč


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: róka
 * Irish: ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Swahili:


 * German: Fuchspelz
 * Russian:, , лисий мех


 * Volapük: renarapläd


 * Afrikaans: skelm
 * Bosnian:
 * Czech: lišák
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: лисица
 * Persian: فریبکار, نیرنگباز
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: ловкий плут, ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman: lisica
 * Slovak: lišiak
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: జిత్తులమారి (jittulamaari)
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Hungarian: bombázó, cicababa, csinibaba
 * Persian: دلکش, نازنین


 * Russian:, кошечка, киска, красотка
 * Swahili:


 * (Inezeño):


 * : waŋ̇i’i
 * : waŋ̇i’i

Synonyms

 * tod

Hyponyms

 * vixen (feminine form)

Hypernyms

 * canid

Verb

 * Italian:
 * Russian: обманывать (obmányvat’)


 * Slovak: prekabátiť
 * Swahili:


 * Italian: lasciare perplesso
 * Russian: обманывать (obmányvat’)


 * Swahili:


 * Russian: хитрить (χitrít’)


 * Swahili:

Etymology
From <,. Cognate with vuhs: ( vos:),  fuhs: ( פֿוקס:,  Fuchs:). The Indo-European root was also the source of Avestan pusa- (‘plait’), ( пух:),  ( paustis:).

Noun

 * 1) fox