| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Fox.[Websters]
2. To be rooked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have tricked, swindled, humbugged or fobbed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have slicked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To be muddled or bewildered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have slimmed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have cheated, imposed or gouged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have sharped or keened. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have cozened or conned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have defrauded or victimized.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb fox.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fox) | 1. Become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots.[Wordnet]. 2. Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher".[Wordnet]. 3. Deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week".[Wordnet]. 4. To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.[Websters]. 5. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.[Websters]. 6. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.[Websters]. 7. To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: foxing, foxed, foxes, foxer, foxers, foxingly and foxedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Repaired by foxing; as, foxed boots.[Websters]
2. Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.[Websters] 3. Being crafty, tricky, cunning, artful or devious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being fraudulent or deceitful. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being specious, fallacious, deceptive, delusive or elusive. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being knavish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being foxy, vulpine, redheaded or reddish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being clever, canny, resourceful, astute or politic. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being dishonest, false, fake, disingenuous or insincere. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being puzzled or bewildered.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FOXED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1668. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FOXED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Foxed A book stained with reddish-brown marks is said to be foxed. Of course, the stain is so called because it is of the colour of a fox. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | FOXED. Intoxicated. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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Common Expressions: fox
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| 21st Century Fox | 21st Century Fox: Romantic Comedy of the Future is an anthropomorphic-style webcomic by Scott Kellogg. It began on February 14, 1999, and follows the exploits of Jack Black, a fox, and Cecil Stuart, a giraffe, in the high tech future world of 2066. Jack is a traveling engineer, roaming from one assignment to the next, repairing equipment for TLATech in his high powered 2066 Thunderbird. (references) | ||
| Adam Fox | Canon Adam Fox (1883-1977) was the Dean of Divinity at C.S. Lewis's Magdalen College, Oxford. He was one of the first members of the Inklings literary group headed by Lewis. Between 1938 and 1942 he was Professor of Poetry. Then he became Canon of Westminster Abbey. He is buried there in the Poet's Corner. (references) | ||
| Andrew Fox | Andrew Fox is an American author from New Orleans. He has written two comic novels, Fat White Vampire Blues and Bride of the Fat White Vampire. Both novels feature Jules Duchon, a morbidly obese vampire who resides in New Orleans and works as a taxi driver. The humor from both books is derived primarily from the embarrassing or dangerous predicaments that are at odds with the dignified, suave image one normally associates with vampires such as Dracula. In addition, Fox presents a well thought out set of continuity rules that explain traditional vampiric powers (e.g. the need for a vampire's mass to go somewhere when transforming into a form smaller than the original form). (references) | ||
| Anne-Marie Fox | Anne-Marie Fox is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's Playmate of the Month in February, 1982 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos. (references) | ||
| Arctic fox | Thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Arriva Fox County | Arriva Fox County is a bus company operating in Leicester and Leicestershire. It was formed in 1981, as Midland Red East with the breakup of the old Midland Red bus company, and then became known as Midland Fox in 1984. It is now part of Arriva Midlands. (references) | ||
| Bat-eared Fox | The Bat-eared Fox is a canid of the African savanna. It is named after its huge ears. Bat-eared Foxes have tawny fur, their ears, legs and parts of the face are black. They are 55 cm in length (head and body), their ears are 13 cm long. It is the only species in the genus Otocyon. (references) | ||
| Bengal Fox | The Bengal Fox (Vulpes bengalensis) or Indian Fox is a fox, to be found in the southern Himalaya, in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. (references) | ||
| Black fox | Red fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Blanford's Fox | Afghan fox, corsac, dog fox, hoary fox, and steppe fox. This can be confusing because other species are known as the corsac fox (Vulpes corsac) and the hoary fox (Pseudalopex vetulus). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fox
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| EASY FOX | Computing | An early system on the JOHNNIAC computer. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Flay a Fox | Literature | 1: "At the time of the paroxysm he used to flay a fox by way of antidote." - Rabelais: Pantagruol iv. 44. 2: (To). To vomit. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Fox message | Business | A standard test message that includes all the alphanumerics on a teletypewriter and also function characteristics (space, figures shift, letters shift). Note: An example of a fox message is "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890." (references) | |
| Fox message | Post & Telecom | A standard message that is used for testing teletypewriter circuits and machines because it includes all the alphanumerics on a teletypewriter as well as most of the function characters, such as space, figures shift, letters shift, etc. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fox Software | Computing | ||
| Old Fox | Literature | 1: Marshal Soult: so called by the soldiers because of his strategic abilities and never-failing resources. (1769-1851.) (See Fox. ) 2: The graceless beast by Athanasius first 3: Was chased from Nice, then by Socinus nursed." 4: . Professedly by Hinreck van Alckmer, tutor of the Duke of Lorraine. This name is generally supposed to be a pseudonym of Hermann Barkhusen, town clerk and book printer in Rostock. (1498.) 5: The hero in the beast-epic of the fourteenth century. This prose poem is a satire on the state of Germany in the Middle Ages. Reynard typifies the church; his uncle, Isengrin the wolf, typifies the baronial element; and Nodel the lion, the regal. The word means deep counsel or wit. (Gothic, raginohart, cunning in counsel; Old Norse, hreinn and ard; German, reincke.) Reynard is commonly used as a synonym of fox. (Heinrich von Alkmaar.) 6: False Reynard fed on consecrated spoil; 7: "Where prowling Reynard trod his nightly round." 8: Bloomfield: Farmer's Boy. 9: False Reynard. So Dryden describes the Unitarians in his Hind and Panther. (See Renard.) 10: "With greater guile 11: Part i. 51-54. 12: (See Similes .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: fox
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | ||||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field | |
| FOX | English | Forward rate agreement with optional exit | Economics | |
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