fox

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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:
3. (countable, uncountable) 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:
4. (uncountable) The fur of a fox.
5. (countable, uncountable) A fox terrier.
6. (countable, uncountable) The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
7. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A cunning person.
8. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable) A physically attractive person, typically a woman.
9. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable) A person with reddish brown hair, typically a woman.
10. (countable, uncountable) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
11. (countable, uncountable) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
12. (countable, uncountable) A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
13. (countable, uncountable) The fourteenth Lenormand card.
14. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
15. (countable, uncountable) Air-to-air weapon launched.
16. (countable, uncountable) Someone who fuses many different influences and concepts in their philosophy or worldview.

Verb

1. (transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
2. (transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).
3. (intransitive) To act slyly or craftily.
4. (dated, transitive) To cheat or rob.
5. (intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See 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.

Conceptos

zorro

🦊

zorra

raposa

raposo

🦊

lobo

🐺

embaucar

picardear

pícaro

raposear

Zorrilla

hacer bromas

perro salvaje

vulpini

dar un chasco

jugar una broma

piel de zorro

usar de astucias

tumbonear

aturdir

truchimanear

chasquear

engañar

gato

😺

pájaro

🐦

Opuesto a

hedgehog

Sinónimos

wildcat

red fox

jackal

confuse

dodger

fob

vixen

fuddle

slyboots

trick

panther

discombobulate

bedevil

throw

play tricks

wild cat

play a trick on

play a joke on

pull a fast one on

flim-flam

baffle

confound

flummox

raccoon

🦝

leopard

🐆

befuddle

outwit

wild dog

divination

dissolve

compound

disrupt

disorganize

commix

discolour

commingle

disarray

jumble

disarrange

clutter

adulterate

immix

derange

immingle

humbug

intermix

delude

chick

knave

hoodwink

Traducciones

renard

🦊

Fuchs

🦊

volpe

🦊

αλεπού

vos

🦊

raposa

🦊

vulpes

🦊

tilki

🦊

guineu

🦊

ثعلب

🦊

rabosa

goupil

🦊

mandra

guilla

🦊

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fɒks/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: fox

Heredado de inglés antiguo: fox

Cognado con escocés: fox

Cognado con frisón occidental: foks

Cognado con frisón septentrional: foos

Cognado con neerlandés: vos

Cognado con bajo alemán: vos

Cognado con alemán: Fuchs

Cognado con islandés: fóa

Cognado con Tokharian B: päkā

Cognado con ruso: пух

Cognado con sánscrito: पुच्छ

Cognado con Torwali: پوش

Cognado con hindi: पूंछ

In summary

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'.