Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Ethnol.) See
fox , n., 7.
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- noun Plural form of
fox . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
fox .
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Examples
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A gentleman of my acquaintance, who killed moft of his foxes at this feafon, was humouroufly called midwife to the foxes*
Sporting Magazine 1796
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I have used a mouth call for years to call in foxes and coyotes.
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I have used a mouth call for years to call in foxes and coyotes.
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Yet nulabbers continue to spin that nature, including dear little foxes, is not red in tooth and claw but calming shades of fluffy bunny white because it suits their ideological agenda and payroll voters.
The Hunters Hunted Newmania 2007
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The little jackals they call foxes crossed our path at intervals.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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But then, when the foxes are already inside the henhouse ...
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The foxes were the companions of her long, wideawake nights now.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The foxes were the companions of her long, wideawake nights now.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The foxes were the companions of her long, wideawake nights now.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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I am all in favor of them blogging but they might not realize that their posts are parodies of themselves -- namely, what we have here is the foxes who are in charge of the hen house telling us how someone, namely the foxes, are stealing the hens.
James Boyce: Annoying HuffPost Trend: Elected Democrats Posting On What's Wrong In Washington 2008
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