Contextualizebeta

desert fox

noun

Etymology

Possibly a calque of German Wüstenfuchs, in reference to the terrain in which the North African campaign was fought, and the popular conception of the slyness of the fox. Not clear whether it was coined in British or German media first, as the respective term arose in each language near-simultaneously.

  1. derived from media first
  2. derived from Wüstenfuchs

Definitions

  1. The fennec.

  2. The white-footed fox.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:desert fox.

  3. Erwin Rommel (1891–1944), a German field marshal and tank commander during World War II.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for desert fox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA