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fox

noun

1 fox

Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs.

Roget 366: animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.    beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, ... show more

Roget 702: cunning, craft; cunningness, craftiness etc. adj.; subtlety, artificiality; maneuvering etc. v.; temporization; circumvention.    chicane, ... show more

Dutch: rode vos, gewone vos, vos
Polish: lis

2 fox

A shifty deceptive person.

synonyms: dodger, slyboots.

Polish: chytrus, cwaniak, filut, przechera, spryciarz

3 fox

The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox.

Dutch: vos, vossebont, vossenbont
Polish: lis

4 Fox

English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806).

synonym: Charles James Fox.

5 Fox

English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691).

synonym: George Fox.

6 Fox

A member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River.

7 Fox

The Algonquian language of the Fox.

verb

1 fox

Deceive somebody.

synonyms: flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick.

2 fox

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.

synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw.

Dutch: verslaan, verbazen, verwarren, in de war schoppen

3 fox

Become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots.


Moby 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 ... show more.

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