• Foxship

    Origin

    From fox + -ship.

    Full definition of foxship

    Noun

    foxship

    (uncountable)
    1. The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning.
      • 1904, Field and stream:I caught a fleeting far-away glimpse of the quarry as he loped across an open field just before re-entering the big swamp-I thought a few things that were anything but complimentary to his foxship, and throwing myself on the ground, ...
      • 2011, William Cunningham Bissell, Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar:"... 'Are we not Wasawahili?' men who obtain their ends by foxship?"
    2. (Used as a mock title) The fox.
      • 1880, The Californian:The dingo, however, does not possess the cunning of his foxship; and, unlike the latter, he "gives himself away" by heralding his coming by a peculiar howl, the authorship of which it is impossible to mistake.
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