| 释义 |
† ˈfoxish, a. Obs.
[f. fox n. + -ish.]
1. Of or pertaining to a fox, fox-like.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 196 Four different kinds of Leprosy are distinguished..3. alopicia and vulpina foxissch. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxviii. 3 This foxish wylynesse. 1583― Calvin on Deut. xxxvi. 215 If the fathers bee woolues they would haue their Children wooluish: if they bee olde foxes they would haue them to bee foxish.
2. fig. Like a fox in nature, crafty, cunning.
14..Lydg. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 25 Among foxys be foxische of nature. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale 44 By his foxisshe example he pretendeth [etc.]. 1699T. C[ockman] Tully's Offices (1706) 273 Your..crafty, foxish, juggling kind of Fellows. |