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dogfox

dogfox is the alternative form of dog-fox.

Meaning of dog-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....
    Synonyms:
    tod
  2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
  3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

Forms of dogfox

pluraldogfoxes

Questions about dogfox

What is dogfox the alternative form of?
Dogfox is the alternative form of dog-fox.

Words near dogfox in the dictionary

  1. dogfood
  2. dogfooded
  3. dogfooding
  4. dogfoods
  5. dogfought
  6. dogfox
  7. dogfoxes
  8. dogfree
  9. dogfucker
  10. dogfuckers
  11. dogfur

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