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dog-fox

dog-fox noun: a male fox.

Noun

dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)

  1. A male fox.
    • Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, / Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl, / Then waked the King—at his request, / Lord Ronald stretch'd himself to rest.1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co....
    • Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox / Gone to ground1969, Roger Waters, “Grantchester Meadows”, in Ummagumma, performed by Pink Floyd, Lupus Music
    Synonyms:
    tod
  2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
  3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

Synonyms of dog-fox

Forms of dog-fox

pluraldog-foxes
alternative formdogfox
alternative formdog fox

Origin of dog-fox

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.

Questions about dog-fox

What does dog-fox mean?
Dog-fox means a male fox.
What part of speech is dog-fox?
Dog-fox is a noun.
What is the plural of dog-fox?
The plural of dog-fox is dog-foxes.

Words near dog-fox in the dictionary

  1. dog-fishes
  2. dog-flea model
  3. dog-flea models
  4. dog-food
  5. dog-foods
  6. dog-fox
  7. dog-foxes
  8. dog-friendlier
  9. dog-friendliest
  10. dog-friendly
  11. dog-hearted

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