Definitions for foxed

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Spelling: [fokst]

IPA: /fɒkst/

Foxed is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in foxed (defox).

Definitions for foxed

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.

adjective

1. deceived; tricked.
2. stained or spotted a yellowish brown, as by age:
3. (of museum specimens of birds and mammals) having melanin pigments that have oxidized with age to a reddish-brown color.

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 foxed

First recorded in 1605-15; fox + -ed²

Examples for foxed

Truly the animal is foxed, and foxes enough are to be found in Yoshiwara.

One having drunk a cup of very flat beer, declared that the beer was more than foxed.

Books having leaves stained by dampness are said to be foxed.

foxed, a term used by print and book collectors to denote the brown spotted appearance produced by damp on paper.

A foxed book cannot have the fox marks removed, and such a book should be avoided.

Flowery signatures in brown ink were fading into the foxed sheets that had frayed and chipped edges.

The cloth was of Robin-Hood green, foxed over in bright yellow leather.

As armor against cacti, they either had “chaps” or trousers “foxed” over in leather, with sometimes a Wild Western fringe.

Thus she has fallen under strange influences and been foxed.