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foxling en · NOUN

Etymology

From fox + -ling.

Meanings

1. A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.
   • The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly. 1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook:
   • The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson. 1837, The Idler, and breakfast-table companion

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