Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or qualities of a fox; cunning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Foxiness; craftiness.
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- noun The
character orqualities of afox ;foxiness ;craftiness ;cunning . - noun The
fox .
Etymologies
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From fox + -ship.
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Examples
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IV. ii.18 (394,7) Hadst thou foxship] Hadst thou, fool as thou art, mean cunning enough to banish Coriolanus?
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
bilby commented on the word foxship
"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'.
August 28, 2009