foxlet
foxlet noun: a young fox.
Noun
foxlet (plural foxlets)
- A young fox.
- The little fox will grow a big fox, / Provided God will grant him life; / But to release him in the meantime / I think would be foolish indeed. / Two foxes that were but foxlets, as yet, / Quite young little things, / Were captured by chance / By the good Doctor Grumberg / On the Isles of...1898, Henri Lachambre, Alexis Machuron, unknown translator, “The Erline Jarl”, in Andrée and His Balloon, Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co, →OCLC, page 143
- It flashed on me that I had come a month / Too late for trapping, that foxlets in the spring / May grow sharp teeth with the passing of a moon . . .1941, Lew Sarett, “Fox-Heart”, in The Collected Poems of Lew Sarett, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, section XIII (Lumberjacks and Voyageurs), page 303
Synonyms of foxlet
Forms of foxlet
| plural | foxlets |
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Origin of foxlet
From fox + -let.
Questions about foxlet
- What does foxlet mean?
- Foxlet means a young fox.
- What part of speech is foxlet?
- Foxlet is a noun.
- What is the plural of foxlet?
- The plural of foxlet is foxlets.
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