Noun: fox
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints, quoting Matthew 8:20 (Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but I have no dwelling where I can rest my head.)
Nouns inflected like fox
feohtling,
seoloþ,
seonoþ,
sacerd,
sleaht,
bealluc,
uprodor,
fugoloþ,
hoppsteort,
pearroc,
swiccræft,
penning,
mæssesang,
weorccræft,
tordwifel,
sandpytt,
discipul,
wyrmhord,
underling,
pundfald, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. Cognate with Old Frisian *foks, Old Saxon fohs, Old Dutch fus, Old High German fuhs.
Verbs referencing "fox"
English Nouns
fox, Middle English Nouns
fox.
Translations