fox-drunk
fox-drunk adjective: crafty and sneaky when drunk.
Adjective
fox-drunk (comparative more fox-drunk, superlative most fox-drunk)
- Crafty and sneaky when drunk.
- […]the eighth is fox-drunk, when he is crafty-drunk, as many of the Dutchmen be, that will never bargain but when they are drunk.1592, Thomas Nashe, Pierce Penniless, His supplication to the Divell
- The sixth and last animal of our menagerie is the fox-drunk man. He is crafty, ready to trade horses and cheat if he can. Keen to strike a bargain, leering around with low cunning, peeping through cracks, listening under the eaves, watching for some suspicious thing, sly as a fox, sneaking as a...1867, Rural New Yorker, volume 18 (1867), New York [etc.] Rural Pub. Co. [etc.]
Forms of fox-drunk
| comparative | more fox-drunk |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fox-drunk |
Origin of fox-drunk
Coined in 1592 by Thomas Nashe in Pierce Penniless, His supplication to the Divell as one of eight types of drunkard named after different animals.
Questions about fox-drunk
- What does fox-drunk mean?
- Fox-drunk means crafty and sneaky when drunk.
- What part of speech is fox-drunk?
- Fox-drunk is an adjective.
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