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FOX
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Foulks.
Surname or Lastname
English (West Midlands)
English (West Midlands) : habitational name from some minor locality, probably the lost Foxhale near Claverley, Shropshire, the name of which is derived from Old English fox ‘fox’ + halh ‘hollow’, ‘recess’. It is less likely that the surname is derived from Foxhall in Suffolk (earlier Foxhole), which is named from Old English fox + hol(h) ‘hollow’, ‘depression’: the surname is not established in East Anglia.
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English and French
English and French : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Re(i)nard. This was the name borne by the cunning fox in the popular medieval cycle of beast tales, with the result that from the 13th century it began to replace the previous Old French word for the animal. Some French examples may be nicknames for crafty individuals, referring to the fox’s reputation for cunning.
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Scottish
Fox.
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English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, possibly named from Old English fox ‘fox’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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English
English : see Fosse.Dutch (de Vos) : nickname for someone with red hair, from vos ‘fox’.North German : variant of Voss.
Boy/Male
Scottish
Fox.
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Muslim
Young fox, Sehabie Rasool sawas
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Native American
Fox.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, such as Foscott (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire), Foscote (Northamptonshire, Wiltshire), Foxcott (Hampshire), Foxcote (Gloucestershire, Warwickshire), so named from Old English fox ‘fox’ + cot ‘shelter’, ‘burrow’.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from a place in Devon named Foxworthy, probably from an Old English personal name Færoc + Old English worðig ‘enclosure’.
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English (Cumbria)
English (Cumbria) : nickname for a keen hunter of foxes, from Northern Middle English tod(de) ‘fox’ + Middle English hunter(e) (see Hunter).
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English (mainly northern) and Scottish
English (mainly northern) and Scottish : nickname for someone thought to resemble a fox, for example in cunning or slyness, or perhaps more obviously in having red hair, from northern Middle English tod(de) ‘fox’ (of unknown origin).
Girl/Female
Native American
Fox (Black Foot).
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Lison in Calvados, France.Perhaps also Czech or Slovak, a derivative of lis ‘fox’ (see Lis).
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English
English : nickname from the animal, Middle English, Old English fox. It may have denoted a cunning individual or been given to someone with red hair or for some other anecdotal reason. This relatively common and readily understood surname seems to have absorbed some early examples of less transparent surnames derived from the Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks.Irish : part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney).Jewish (American) : translation of the Ashkenazic Jewish surname Fuchs.Americanized spelling of Focks, a North German patronymic from the personal name Fock (see Volk).Americanized spelling of Fochs, a North German variant of Fuchs, or in some cases no doubt a translation of Fuchs itself.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, named with an ancient British river name, perhaps meaning ‘sacred’, ‘holy’.Irish : when not of English origin (see 1 above), a rare reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Seanchaidhe ‘son of the chronicler’, a name found in Sligo and Leitrim, which is more commonly Anglicized as Fox, as the result of an erroneous association with sionnach ‘fox’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Fosse.Danish : from fos, vos ‘fox’; a nickname for a sly or cunning person or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a fox.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named from Old Norse fors ‘waterfall’, examples of which are found throughout Norway.Altered spelling of German Voss or the Dutch cognate Vos.
Boy/Male
English American
Fox. Tod is a Scottish nickname meaning a clever or wily person.
Male
English
From an Old English byname, FOX means "fox."
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a.
Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.
n.
One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
a.
Foxlike.
n.
A kind of fox found in Sweden (Vulpes alopex), smaller than the common fox (V. vulgaris), but probably a variety of it.
n.
The fox shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
n.
Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis.
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The tail or brush of a fox.
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Resembling a fox in his characteristic qualities; cunning; artful; foxy.
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Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smeelling.
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Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
n. pl.
See Fox, n., 7.
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A male fox. See the Note under Dog, n., 6.
a.
Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this color.
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The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.
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The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.
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Foxlike.
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The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.
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Behavior like that of a fox; cunning.
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Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
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Foxiness; craftiness.