Definitions for foxes

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foxes fox

Spelling: [foks]

IPA: /fɒks/

Foxes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in foxes (efosx).

Definitions for foxes

noun

1. any of several carnivores of the dog family, especially those of the genus Vulpes, smaller than wolves, having a pointed, slightly upturned muzzle, erect ears, and a long, bushy tail.
2. the fur of this animal.
3. a cunning or crafty person.
4. (initial capital letter) a member of a tribe of North American Algonquian Indians, formerly in Wisconsin, later merged with the Sauk tribe.
5. (initial capital letter) the Algonquian language of the Fox, Sauk, and Kickapoo Indians.
6. Bible. a scavenger, perhaps the jackal. Psalms 63:10; Lam. 5:18.
7. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter F: replaced by Foxtrot.
8. Slang. an attractive young woman or young man.
9. Charles James, 1749–1806, British orator and statesman.
10. George, 1624–91, English religious leader and writer: founder of the Society of Friends.
11. John, John Foxe.
12. John William, Jr. 1863–1919, U.S. novelist.
13. Margaret, 1833–93, and her sister Katherine, (“Kate”), 1839–92, U.S. spiritualist mediums, born in Canada.
14. Sir William, 1812–93, New Zealand statesman, born in England: prime minister 1856, 1861–62, 1869–72, 1873.

verb (used with object)

1. to deceive or trick.
2. to repair or make (a shoe) with leather or other material applied so as to cover or form part of the upper front.
3. Obsolete. to intoxicate or befuddle.

verb (used without object)

1. to act cunningly or craftily.
2. (of book leaves, prints, etc.) to become foxed.

Origin of foxes

before 900; 1960-65 for def 9; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Saxon vohs, Middle Low German vos, Old High German fuhs (German Fuchs). Cf. vixen

Examples for foxes

Weirich said whenever she saw fox, she was wearing something too tight.

As Miss fox was exactly informed of all our plans, she was able to copy them in her own arrangements.

Earlier this week, Huckabee ended his fox News talk show so he could spend time mulling another bid for the Republican nomination.

Presuming his demographic is largely the same as what it was when he was at fox, they are not wealthy people.

Further, the two colleges selected may not even be representative of large campuses, fox said.

The bond was delivered to fox, who tore it up and flung the pieces into the fire.

Up and down he walked beneath the tree like a fox caught in a hencoop.

“We won the war,” the fox News personality proclaimed last week.

Besides, you two might like to watch how I set a trap to catch a fox.

Besides, Trapper Jim declared he owed the fox skin to Ed, anyhow.