{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "fɑks" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fox.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fox.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English fox, from Old English fox (“fox”), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz (“fox”), from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), possibly from *puḱ- (“tail”).\nCognate with Scots fox (“fox”), West Frisian foks (“fox”), Fering-Öömrang North Frisian foos and Sölring and Heligoland fos, Dutch vos (“fox”), Low German vos (“fox”), German Fuchs (“fox”), Icelandic fóa (“fox”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowrie”), Russian пух (pux, “down, fluff”), Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha) (whence Torwali پوش (pūš, “fox”), Hindi पूंछ (pūñch, “tail”))." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.\nThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.\n15th century, The Fox, verse 1:\nThe fox went out on a chase one night, / he prayed to the Moon to give him light, / for he had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o. / He had many a mile to go that night / before he reached the town-o.\n1879, R J, “The First Gun”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC, page 1:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too." }, { "mean": "Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox)." }, { "mean": "The fur of a fox." }, { "mean": "A fox terrier." }, { "mean": "The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color." }, { "mean": "(slang, figurative) A cunning person." }, { "mean": "(slang, figurative) A physically attractive man or woman.\n1993, Laura Antoniou, The Marketplace, p.90:\nAnd Jerry was cute, you know, I liked him, but Frank was a total fox. And he was rougher than Jerry, you know, not so cultured.\n2012, Adele Parks, Still Thinking of You:It wasn't just that Jayne was a fox – although, fuck, was she ever a fox. That arse, those tits, those lips. They could have a really good time together." }, { "mean": "(slang, figurative) A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman." }, { "mean": "(nautical) A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets." }, { "mean": "(mechanics) A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it." }, { "mean": "A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.\n2006, H. Ward Silver, The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual\nLocating a hidden transmitter (the fox) has been a popular ham activity for many years." }, { "mean": "(cartomancy) The fourteenth Lenormand card." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.\n1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Thou diest on point of fox." }, { "mean": "(military, aviation) Air-to-air weapon launched." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To confuse or baffle (someone).\nThis crossword puzzle has completely foxed me." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To act slyly or craftily." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)\nThe pages of the book show distinct foxing." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.\n1661 October 9 (date written; Gregorian calendar)​, Samuel Pepys; Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 29th, 1661 (Lord’s Day)”, in Henry B Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume II, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC:\nI drank so much wine that I was almost foxed." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }