| 释义 |
foxery|ˈfɒksərɪ|
[f. fox n. + -ery.]
The character, manners, or behaviour of a fox; wiliness, cunning.
c1400Rom. Rose 6795, I..have wel lever..Bifore the puple patre and prey, And wrye me in my foxerye Under a cope of papelardye. c1540Pilgr. T. 278 in Thynne's Animadv. (1865) App. i. 85, I had rehersid nothing but papry, sprong owt of Antichrist, full of foxry. 1893R. F. Burton tr. Il Pentamerone I. 178 The fox, never dreaming that the other was a quintessence of foxery, found a woman more a fox than herself. |