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foxship

noun

Etymology

From fox + -ship.

  1. inherited from *púḱsos✻ — “the tailed one”
  2. inherited from *fuhsaz✻ — “fox”
  3. inherited from *fuhs✻
  4. inherited from fox — “fox”
  5. inherited from fox
  6. suffixed as foxship — “fox + ship”

Definitions

  1. The character or qualities of a fox

    The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning.

    • Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words.
    • "[…] 'Are we not Wasawahili?' men who obtain their ends by foxship?"

  2. The fox.

    • The dingo, however, does not possess the cunning of his foxship; and, unlike the latter, he "gives himself away" by heralding his coming by a peculiar howl, the authorship of which it is impossible to mistake.
    • I caught a fleeting far-away glimpse of the quarry as he loped across an open field just before re-entering the big swamp-I thought a few things that were anything but complimentary to his foxship, and throwing myself on the ground, […]

The neighborhood

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