fox

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), 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.
4. A fox terrier.
5. The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
6. (slang) A cunning person.
7. (slang) A physically attractive man or woman.
8. (slang) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
9. A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
10. A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
11. A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
12. The fourteenth Lenormand card.
13. (obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
14. Air-to-air weapon launched.

Verb

1. To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
2. To confuse or baffle (someone).
3. To act slyly or craftily.
4. To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
5. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
6. To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
7. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
8. To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

Concepts

renard

🦊

goupil

🦊

deviner

divination

duper

embrouiller

emmêler

finasser

mystifier

perturber

renarde

rendre perplexe

retors

rusé

ruser

tromper

voyant

fox

roublard

renard commun

avoir

renard roux

devin

Synonyms

wildcat

red fox

jackal

confuse

vixen

fuddle

slyboots

fob

dodger

trick

baffle

wild dog

confound

panther

flim-flam

play a joke on

pull a fast one on

raccoon

🦝

wild cat

throw

leopard

🐆

bedevil

discombobulate

befuddle

flummox

play a trick on

play tricks

outwit

fold

fortunes

fortune-teller

heterodyne

hoodwink

humbug

immingle

immix

intermix

jumble

knave

lecher

meld

mingle

mix

mix in

mix up

motley

obfuscate

obscure

paddle

palter

randomise

ravel

resolve

rile

rumple

scramble

screw

silver fox

snarl

snooker

soak

sophisticate

stir

stir up

stump

tangle

tod

toss

tussle

upset

villain

🦹‍♂️

weasel

wild animal

yellow

actress

cunning fellow

cunning person

tell fortunes

throw together

cry of a fox

bark of a fox

yobbo

addle

adulterate

agitate

babe

blend

break up

chick

clutter

commingle

commix

compound

con

concoct

confect

deceive

delude

derange

disarrange

disarray

discolour

disorganize

disrupt

dissolve

divination

divine

diviner

doll

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/fɒks/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: fox

Inherited from ancien anglais: fox

Cognate with écossais: fox

Cognate with frison occidental: foks

Cognate with frison septentrional: foos

Cognate with néerlandais: vos

Cognate with bas-allemand: vos

Cognate with allemand: Fuchs

Cognate with islandais: fóa

Cognate with Tokharian B: päkā

Cognate with russe: пух

Cognate with sanskrit: पुच्छ

Cognate with Torwali: پوش

Cognate with hindi: पूंछ

In summary

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”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, 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”)).