Reverse Dictionary: FOX

ADJECTIVES
► VULPECULATED robbed by a fox → 1671 obs.

NOUNS
► BALL the footprint of a fox → 1845 Eng. dial.
► BEAU REYNOLDS a name for the fox → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BITCH-FOX a vixen → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BOURIE a rabbit’s burrow; a fox’s den → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUSH the bushy tail of a fox; the bushy tail of any animal → 1575 obs.
► CHARLES JAMES a fox → L19 rhyming sl. (Charles James Fox)
► CHARLEY ► CHARLIE a fox → c1850 colloq.
► CLICKET supposed by some to be a she-fox → a1500
► CUB orig. a young fox → 1530
► DODD a fox → 1900 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► DOG FOX a male fox → 1902 Amer. dial.
► DRAG the trail of scent left by a fox → 1772 US
► FAWS a fox → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FOX-CASE the skin of a fox → 1610 obs.
► FOX-STONES the testicles of a fox → 1597 obs.
► FOX-WHELP a cub of the fox → c1320 obs.
► GANNING the sound of a fox → 1607 obs.
► GRAYBACK a gray fox → 1982 Amer. dial.
► GRINNIE a red fox → 1967 Amer. dial.
► KENNEL a the hole or lair of the fox → 1735
► LAD a fox → 20C Irish sl.
► LAURENCE the fox → c1470 obs.
► LAURIE TOD a familiar name for the fox → c1470
► LOWRIE a fox; often used as a proper name → a1500 Sc., chiefly poetic usage
► MASK in hunting: a fox’s head → 1828
► PAD the foot of an animal, esp. a fox’s foot → 1790 Eng. dial.
► PAD-MARK a footprint, the mark of a fox → 1900 Eng. dial.
► PAD-SCENT in foxhunting: the scent from a fox’s foot → 1898 Eng. dial.
► PUG a fox, chiefly as a nickname → E19 colloq.
► PUGGY a quasi-proper name for a fox → 1827
► RANALD a fox → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RENYARD ‘reynard’, a fox → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REYNOLDS a fox → 1896 Eng. dial.
► SAMPSON FOX ► SAMSON FOX a red fox with woolly or otherwise abnormal fur → 1903 Amer. dial.
► SCUMBER the dung of a dog or fox → 1647 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► STRAIGHT-GOER a fox that runs quickly and determinedly straight over the country, and hence provides good sport → 1836
► TOD 1. a fox → c1170 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. fox-skin → 1503 obs.
► TOD-LOWRIE a familiar name for the fox → c1470
► VERGEN a burrow of a fox, rabbit, etc. → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WAGING the excrement of a fox → c1410 obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► EARTH-STOPPER a man engaged to stop up the earths or holes of foxes to prevent them from taking refuge in them when hunted → 1880
► HARD MAN a man who is particularly tough, aggressive, and self-assured; in fox-hunting: a hard-riding huntsman who is dismissive of physical danger → 1835 colloq., chiefly Brit.
► STRAIGHT-GOER a rider who follows the fox directly over the country during a hunt, as opposed to keeping to roads and tracks → 1826 obs.

VERBS
► BALL to track the footprints of a fox → 1878 Eng. dial.
► CLICKET of the fox or hare: to be in heat, to copulate → 1575
► DRAG to hunt a fox with dogs → 1773 US
► GANNE to bark as a fox → 1607 obs.
► KENNEL of a fox or other wild beast: to retreat into a lair → 1552
► RUN TO EARTH 1. of a hunted fox: to go to ground
2. to hunt (an animal, esp. a fox) to the earth, and trap it there
► SCUMBER of a dog or fox: to evacuate the faeces, to defecate; also said of a person → c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► UNCOVER to drive a fox out of cover → 1824 Sc. obs.
► VULPINATE to play the fox; to deceive with crafty wiles or deceits → 1623 obs.