NOUN
- 1A carnivorous mammal of the dog family with a pointed muzzle and bushy tail, proverbial for its cunning.Vulpes and three other genera, family Canidae: several species, including the red fox and the arctic fox
- 1.1mass noun The fur of a fox.
- 1.1mass noun The fur of a fox.
- 2A cunning or sly person.‘a wily old fox’
- 3North American informal A sexually attractive woman.
VERB
[WITH OBJECT]informal- 1Baffle or deceive (someone)‘the abbreviation foxed me completely’
- 1.1dated no object Behave in a cunning or sly way.‘to his mind everybody was dodging and foxing’
- 1.1dated no object Behave in a cunning or sly way.
Origin
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vos and German Fuchs.
Pronunciation
NOUN
- 1A member of a North American people formerly living in southern Wisconsin, and now mainly in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas.
- 2mass noun The Algonquian language of the Fox, now almost extinct.
ADJECTIVE
- Relating to the Fox or their language.
Pronunciation
名詞
(《複数形》 foxes,[集合的に] fox)
1a可算名詞 キツネ 《★【解説】 「ずる賢い」(sly) というイメージがあり,鶏が好物とされる; 雄ギツネは dog fox,雌ギツネは vixen,bitch fox,子ギツネは cub; cf. Reynard; ほえ声は犬と同じく bark; 英国の貴族趣味の代表的スポーツに foxhunting がある》.
b可算名詞 雄ギツネ (cf. vixen 1).
c不可算名詞 キツネの毛皮.
2可算名詞 こうかつな人,ずるい人.
a sly old fox 老獪(ろうかい)な人.
3可算名詞 《米俗》 性的魅力のある女性.
名詞としての「fox」のイディオムやフレーズ
(as) cúnning as a fóx
動詞 他動詞
1a〈人を〉欺く,だます.
b〈問題などが〉難しすぎて〈人を〉まごつかせる.
2〈本のページ・印画などを〉変色させる 《★通例受身で用いる》.
be badly foxed ひどく変色している.
自動詞
ずるいことをする.
【語源】
古期英語から; 原義は「(ふさふさした)尻尾のある動物」; 形容詞 foxy
505/5000
Meishi ( “fukusūgata” foxes,[shūgō-teki ni] fox) 1 a kasan meishi kitsune “★ [kaisetsu] `zurugashikoi'(sly) to iu imēji ga ari, niwatori ga kōbutsu to sa reru; o gitsune wa dog fox, mesu gitsune wa vixen, bitchi fox,-ko gitsune wa cub; cf. Reinādo; hoe-goe wa inu to onajiku bark; Igirisu no kizoku shumi no daihyō-teki supōtsu ni foxhunting ga aru”. B kasan meishi o gitsune (cf. Vixen 1). C fukasanmeishi kitsune no kegawa. 2 Kasan meishi kōkatsuna hito, zurui hito. A sly ōrudo fox rōkai (rōkai)na hito. 3 Kasan meishi “Amerika zoku” seiteki miryokunoaru josei. Meishi to shite no `fox' no idiomu ya furēzu (as) cúnning as a fóx dōshi tadōshi 1 a 〈hito o〉 azamuku,damasu. B 〈mondai nado ga〉 muzukashi sugite 〈hito o〉 magotsuka seru. 2 〈Hon no pēji inga nado o〉 henshoku sa seru “★ tsūrei ukemi de mochiiru”. Be badly foxed hidoku henshoku shite iru. Jidōshi zurui koto o suru. [Gogen] kokieigo kara; gengi wa ` (fusafusa shita) shippo no aru dōbutsu'; keiyōshi foxy
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