Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character or qualities of a fox; cunning.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Foxiness; craftiness.
Etymologies
- From fox + -ship. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“IV. ii.18 (394,7) Hadst thou foxship] Hadst thou, fool as thou art, mean cunning enough to banish Coriolanus?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foxship’.
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
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Shakespearean Neologisms
Words of which William Shakespeare was the only recorded user, at some point, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. (From "New-minted Coins", a list on futilitycloset.com)
bepray, bragless, compulsative, conceptious, confineless, continuantly, correctioner, disliken, exceptless, exsufflicate, foxship, insultment and 11 more...
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bilby "VOLUMNIA: Ay, fool; is that a shame?--Note but this, fool.--
Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship
To banish him that struck more blows for Rome
Than thou hast spoken words?--"
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009