foxholen.

Brit.

/ˈfɒkshəʊl/, U.S.

/ˈfɑksˌhoʊl/

Forms: see fox n. and hole n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fox n., hole n.

Etymology: < fox n. + hole n. (compare hole n. 1b).Attested earlier in place names, as Foxehola, Suffolk (1086; now Foxhall), Foxhola, East Riding, Yorkshire (1086; now Foxholes); compare also Foxole, Kent (1278; now Foxholt), ffoxholes, Lancashire (1325; now Foxholes), le Foxholes, Northamptonshire (1365; now Foxhole Copse), le Foxhole, Surrey (1415; now Foxholes Wood), etc.

1. The earth or burrow of a fox.Apparently not recorded in Middle English except in late copies of material of Old English composition and in place names (see etymological note).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > lair

foxholelOE

traynec1400

terrier1484

tod hole1607

kennel1735

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 446) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 460 Þonon on þæs hlincæs wæstændæ æt þam hwitan foxholum.

c1200 ( Bounds (Sawyer 115) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 320 Of dunne dic into þam foxhole, of ðam foxhole into þæt oðer clif.

1545 W. Turner Rescuynge of Romishe Fox sig. Bviii^v The fox holes and couers where in the yong foxes brede and the old hyde them.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii. 340 He gat forth by narrow Foxe holes under the ground.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/1 Bleinchers, and Sewels, are papers and stick laid cross a Fox-hole, to fear him and make him believe some Gin is set there.

1748 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 582/1 The sliminess of the ground, and the vast number of fox-holes oblige him carefully to mind his steps.

1823 Trav. in N. Asia 80 At the entrance of a fox hole, the nose of a Calmuck hunter will distinguish, whether the animal is in it or not.

1913 J. Muir Boyhood & Youth i. 23 But that's no fair, for naebody counts craw's nests and fox holes.

2010 Guardian 20 Mar. (Guide to Pets) 64/3 In its original use as a hunting dog, the westie's tail was kept long because it gave the owner something to grip on when pulling it out of fox holes.

2. figurative. A hiding place; a place of refuge.With allusion to Matthew 8:20: ‘And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head (King James version).’In early use typically with reference to an opponent in a controversy, esp. of religion, often also allusively imputing cunning or deviousness to that opponent (cf. fox n. 2a). In later use a figurative extension of either sense 1 or sense 3, typically regarding the safety of the subject or something valuable to the subject.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun]

hidelsc975

hidela1300

bushc1330

hulkc1330

derna1340

tapissinga1340

coverta1375

hiding1382

loting-placea1398

cover14..

hiding placec1440

mewa1450

closetc1450

hole1483

cure1502

secret1530

shrouding place1571

ivy-bush1576

coney burrowa1586

hidlings1597

foxhole1606

shrouding corner1610

recess1611

subterfuge1616

latibule1623

latebra1626

blind1646

privacy1648

hide1649

retreat1697

rathole1770

hidey-hole1817

tod hole1846

hulster1880

hideout1885

cwtch1890

castle1898

lurk1906

stash1927

hideaway1930

1606 T. Morton Full Satisfaction conc. Double Romish Iniquitie iii. ii. v. 61 But answer, (for we wil draw you out of that foxe hole).

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere To Rdr. sig. b3^v The better to discouer their weakenesse, and to plucke them out of their Fox-hole of Personall Succession, and Visibilitie, the King imposed this Taske, of writing vpon the Nine Questions.

1658 J. Rawson Gerizim & Ebal 45 Therefore now I must deal plainly & roundly with you, and shall unkennel you out of your fox-holes.

1819 R. Harrington Death Warrant French Theory of Chem. in Elucidation & Extension of Harringtonian Syst. Chem. 8 But I know that I must make my ground so clear, that there is no bush, fox-hole, or assassin's den, for my opponents to conceal themselves in.

1886 J. W. Graham Neæra i. ix. 102 Fabricius eats his postponed supper, and you are off to your foxholes, like a cur, with its tail between its legs.

1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1003/2 The arrangement..might get trade flowing without abandoning the principle of reunion through elections, and yet it might conceivably inveigle the communists out of their foxholes.

1964 D. F. Dowd in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 59 The academic profession in America is the social critic's refuge; even, in extreme cases, his foxhole.

1968 Times 4 Apr. 8/6 The pound is in the same foxhole as the dollar.

1996 N. Martin Vanilla Blood xiii. 132 Isn't it about time you let your heart out of its foxhole?

3. A hole in the ground used by troops as a shelter against enemy fire or as a firing point.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > types of trench

transverse1704

front trench1847

communicating trench1857

shelter-trench1870

firing bay1885

communication trench1903

fire trench1907

funk-hole1914

support trench1914

foxhole1915

fire bay1916

slit-trench1942

1915 Manch. Guardian 8 Oct. 12/4 As for the Boches who had taken refuge in the ‘fox holes’, they were suffocating under feet of earth and debris.

1919 Red Cross Mag. Apr. 29/1 The bitter weeks of the Argonne when the same Yank lay hungry, cold, wet, and exhausted in some insufficient fox-hole.

1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xii. 143 Those dead men in field grey overcoats at the entrances, and others flung down by their last ‘foxholes’ near by.

1944 Baltimore Sun 2 Aug. 2/4 Staff Sergeant Thomas E. Laffitte..skidded into another foxhole so fast he lost his rifle at the entrance.

1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me 334 On reaching a benchlike plateau, he cleared out several Japanese foxholes.

1984 B. Bragg Island of No Return (song) in Back to Basics (1987) (CD lyrics booklet) Digging all day and digging all night To keep my foxhole out of sight.

2003 Independent 29 Mar. 10/1 Young men..spend a night in a muddy foxhole and then get blown to pieces the next day.

Phrases

Originally U.S. Proverb. there are no atheists in foxholes. Cf. Compounds 1b.

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1942 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. 3/5 He and a sergeant, who shared the same fox-hole, prayed audibly during one particularly heavy bombing attack. The sergeant..observed afterward that ‘there are no atheists in fox-holes’.

1967 M. Holmes Love & Laughter 398 Men say there are no atheists in foxholes. Women can testify that there are no atheists in delivery rooms.

2000 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. iv. 15/1 There are no atheists in foxholes, and no purist free-marketeers in banking crises.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive and objective (in sense 3).

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1919 Detroit Free Press 9 Mar. iv. 1/8 (heading) Seeks foxhole shelter.

1919 Bay City (Michigan) Times Tribune 9 June 2/1 A meeting was recently held by the leading fox-hole hermits and cave dwellers of the A.E.F.

1947 S. A. Wood et al. Hist. 313th Infantry in World War II vi. 49/1 Naturally, every man had been given plenty of practice at foxhole digging.

1955 Sci. News Let. 19 Feb. 116/1 Simple foxhole shelters provide ‘surprising protection’ from this invisible radioactivity.

1982 K. W. Churchill Enemy Contact! v. 152 My new foxhole partner was a two-striper—Cpl. Reneau.

2002 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 20 Oct. b3 Ambrose wrote about D-Day from the foxhole level, in the words of the men who'd been there.

b. attributive with the sense ‘designating religious belief or commitment that emerges, typically temporarily, in time of stress, fear, or danger; having such belief or commitment’, as foxhole Christian, foxhole conversion, foxhole religion, etc. Also in extended use. Usually depreciative.With reference to the proverbial phrase there are no atheists in foxholes (see Phrases).

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1942 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 9 Aug. a7/2 ‘Fox-hole Christians’ will be the subject of a sermon to be delivered by the Rev. Ralph Roland.

1945 N. Y. Times 27 May 15/1 Both ‘foxhole religion’ and the problem of soldiers' psychological readjustment to home life are aspects of the war that appear to be greatly exaggerated in the United States.

1976 N. Lamm in I. J. Rosenbaum Holocaust & Halakhah p. ix This was infinitely more than ‘foxhole faith’ and empty consolation.

1999 Daily Tel. 10 June 15/6 Although I am sceptical of foxhole conversion, nevertheless the time when I was at the nadir of my misfortunes was the time when I turned more humbly and penitently than ever towards Our Lord Jesus Christ.

2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. Such sentiments have been dismissed as those of ‘foxhole Christians’—someone whose view changes under fire only to revert to type later—by other senior banking figures.

2005 E. L. Hushbeck Christianity & Secularism (rev. ed.) iii. 172 While a foxhole conversion fades quickly once the adversity is over, John's conversion affected his entire life, changing it forever.

C2.

foxhole buddy n. U.S. colloquial (originally Military) a person with whom one shares a foxhole; (in extended use) a close friend or ally.

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1944 Abilene (Texas) Reporter News 11 Jan. 3/3 A lively tank battle was going on. Horton was cheering his foxhole buddies on to get up and watch it. He got up and was shot through the shoulder and lungs.

1946 W. R. Cheves et al. Snow Ridges & Pillboxes v. 116 Pfc. Goll and I were foxhole buddies and had a good hole.

1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Sept. b2 ‘It's been a rough year for me,’ Miller chuckled, with so many old political foxhole buddies seeking his support.

1994 New Yorker 18 July 39/1 All their painful stories are followed by moments of remembered grief but end in the genuine and ironic laughter of foxhole buddies.

foxhole circuit n. originally U.S. (originally, with reference to theatrical shows staged for American troops by the United Service Organization during the Second World War (1939–45)) the circuit of shows going as close as possible to the front lines, as opposed to performances at military bases or hospitals; (later more generally) theatrical shows staged to entertain troops in a war zone.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > circuit > type of

festival circuit1899

small time1910

foxhole circuit1943

1943 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 30 July 4/2 She feels she is only marking time while filling two picture assignments..until she can go out on another tour of the foxhole circuit.

1944 Newsweek 31 July 60 The performers who were selected to make up the first entertainment..wave, as part of USO-Camp Show's ‘Foxhole Circuit’.

2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Oct. 6 In the years after 9/11, with our armies mired in unpopular wars, it was harder to find stars to volunteer for the ‘foxhole circuit’.

2012 V. Gomez & L. Goldstone Lefty 372 With the outbreak of the Korean War, Sunny and Frank Conville worked the foxhole circuit again.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	foxhole
释义	foxholen. Brit. /ˈfɒkshəʊl/, U.S. /ˈfɑksˌhoʊl/ Forms: see fox n. and hole n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fox n., hole n. Etymology: < fox n. + hole n. (compare hole n. 1b).Attested earlier in place names, as Foxehola, Suffolk (1086; now Foxhall), Foxhola, East Riding, Yorkshire (1086; now Foxholes); compare also Foxole, Kent (1278; now Foxholt), ffoxholes, Lancashire (1325; now Foxholes), le Foxholes, Northamptonshire (1365; now Foxhole Copse), le Foxhole, Surrey (1415; now Foxholes Wood), etc. 1. The earth or burrow of a fox.Apparently not recorded in Middle English except in late copies of material of Old English composition and in place names (see etymological note). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Vulpes > vulpes vulpes (fox) > lair foxholelOE traynec1400 terrier1484 tod hole1607 kennel1735 lOE Bounds (Sawyer 446) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1887) II. 460 Þonon on þæs hlincæs wæstændæ æt þam hwitan foxholum. c1200 ( Bounds (Sawyer 115) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 320 Of dunne dic into þam foxhole, of ðam foxhole into þæt oðer clif. 1545 W. Turner Rescuynge of Romishe Fox sig. Bviii^v The fox holes and couers where in the yong foxes brede and the old hyde them. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii. 340 He gat forth by narrow Foxe holes under the ground. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 187/1 Bleinchers, and Sewels, are papers and stick laid cross a Fox-hole, to fear him and make him believe some Gin is set there. 1748 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 582/1 The sliminess of the ground, and the vast number of fox-holes oblige him carefully to mind his steps. 1823 Trav. in N. Asia 80 At the entrance of a fox hole, the nose of a Calmuck hunter will distinguish, whether the animal is in it or not. 1913 J. Muir Boyhood & Youth i. 23 But that's no fair, for naebody counts craw's nests and fox holes. 2010 Guardian 20 Mar. (Guide to Pets) 64/3 In its original use as a hunting dog, the westie's tail was kept long because it gave the owner something to grip on when pulling it out of fox holes. 2. figurative. A hiding place; a place of refuge.With allusion to Matthew 8:20: ‘And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head (King James version).’In early use typically with reference to an opponent in a controversy, esp. of religion, often also allusively imputing cunning or deviousness to that opponent (cf. fox n. 2a). In later use a figurative extension of either sense 1 or sense 3, typically regarding the safety of the subject or something valuable to the subject. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 1606 T. Morton Full Satisfaction conc. Double Romish Iniquitie iii. ii. v. 61 But answer, (for we wil draw you out of that foxe hole). 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere To Rdr. sig. b3^v The better to discouer their weakenesse, and to plucke them out of their Fox-hole of Personall Succession, and Visibilitie, the King imposed this Taske, of writing vpon the Nine Questions. 1658 J. Rawson Gerizim & Ebal 45 Therefore now I must deal plainly & roundly with you, and shall unkennel you out of your fox-holes. 1819 R. Harrington Death Warrant French Theory of Chem. in Elucidation & Extension of Harringtonian Syst. Chem. 8 But I know that I must make my ground so clear, that there is no bush, fox-hole, or assassin's den, for my opponents to conceal themselves in. 1886 J. W. Graham Neæra i. ix. 102 Fabricius eats his postponed supper, and you are off to your foxholes, like a cur, with its tail between its legs. 1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1003/2 The arrangement..might get trade flowing without abandoning the principle of reunion through elections, and yet it might conceivably inveigle the communists out of their foxholes. 1964 D. F. Dowd in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 59 The academic profession in America is the social critic's refuge; even, in extreme cases, his foxhole. 1968 Times 4 Apr. 8/6 The pound is in the same foxhole as the dollar. 1996 N. Martin Vanilla Blood xiii. 132 Isn't it about time you let your heart out of its foxhole? 3. A hole in the ground used by troops as a shelter against enemy fire or as a firing point. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > types of trench transverse1704 front trench1847 communicating trench1857 shelter-trench1870 firing bay1885 communication trench1903 fire trench1907 funk-hole1914 support trench1914 foxhole1915 fire bay1916 slit-trench1942 1915 Manch. Guardian 8 Oct. 12/4 As for the Boches who had taken refuge in the ‘fox holes’, they were suffocating under feet of earth and debris. 1919 Red Cross Mag. Apr. 29/1 The bitter weeks of the Argonne when the same Yank lay hungry, cold, wet, and exhausted in some insufficient fox-hole. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War xii. 143 Those dead men in field grey overcoats at the entrances, and others flung down by their last ‘foxholes’ near by. 1944 Baltimore Sun 2 Aug. 2/4 Staff Sergeant Thomas E. Laffitte..skidded into another foxhole so fast he lost his rifle at the entrance. 1948 B. Griffith Amer. Me 334 On reaching a benchlike plateau, he cleared out several Japanese foxholes. 1984 B. Bragg Island of No Return (song) in Back to Basics (1987) (CD lyrics booklet) Digging all day and digging all night To keep my foxhole out of sight. 2003 Independent 29 Mar. 10/1 Young men..spend a night in a muddy foxhole and then get blown to pieces the next day. Phrases Originally U.S. Proverb. there are no atheists in foxholes. Cf. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1942 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. 3/5 He and a sergeant, who shared the same fox-hole, prayed audibly during one particularly heavy bombing attack. The sergeant..observed afterward that ‘there are no atheists in fox-holes’. 1967 M. Holmes Love & Laughter 398 Men say there are no atheists in foxholes. Women can testify that there are no atheists in delivery rooms. 2000 N.Y. Times 12 Nov. iv. 15/1 There are no atheists in foxholes, and no purist free-marketeers in banking crises. Compounds C1. a. General attributive and objective (in sense 3). ΚΠ 1919 Detroit Free Press 9 Mar. iv. 1/8 (heading) Seeks foxhole shelter. 1919 Bay City (Michigan) Times Tribune 9 June 2/1 A meeting was recently held by the leading fox-hole hermits and cave dwellers of the A.E.F. 1947 S. A. Wood et al. Hist. 313th Infantry in World War II vi. 49/1 Naturally, every man had been given plenty of practice at foxhole digging. 1955 Sci. News Let. 19 Feb. 116/1 Simple foxhole shelters provide ‘surprising protection’ from this invisible radioactivity. 1982 K. W. Churchill Enemy Contact! v. 152 My new foxhole partner was a two-striper—Cpl. Reneau. 2002 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 20 Oct. b3 Ambrose wrote about D-Day from the foxhole level, in the words of the men who'd been there. b. attributive with the sense ‘designating religious belief or commitment that emerges, typically temporarily, in time of stress, fear, or danger; having such belief or commitment’, as foxhole Christian, foxhole conversion, foxhole religion, etc. Also in extended use. Usually depreciative.With reference to the proverbial phrase there are no atheists in foxholes (see Phrases). ΚΠ 1942 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 9 Aug. a7/2 ‘Fox-hole Christians’ will be the subject of a sermon to be delivered by the Rev. Ralph Roland. 1945 N. Y. Times 27 May 15/1 Both ‘foxhole religion’ and the problem of soldiers' psychological readjustment to home life are aspects of the war that appear to be greatly exaggerated in the United States. 1976 N. Lamm in I. J. Rosenbaum Holocaust & Halakhah p. ix This was infinitely more than ‘foxhole faith’ and empty consolation. 1999 Daily Tel. 10 June 15/6 Although I am sceptical of foxhole conversion, nevertheless the time when I was at the nadir of my misfortunes was the time when I turned more humbly and penitently than ever towards Our Lord Jesus Christ. 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. Such sentiments have been dismissed as those of ‘foxhole Christians’—someone whose view changes under fire only to revert to type later—by other senior banking figures. 2005 E. L. Hushbeck Christianity & Secularism (rev. ed.) iii. 172 While a foxhole conversion fades quickly once the adversity is over, John's conversion affected his entire life, changing it forever. C2. foxhole buddy n. U.S. colloquial (originally Military) a person with whom one shares a foxhole; (in extended use) a close friend or ally. ΚΠ 1944 Abilene (Texas) Reporter News 11 Jan. 3/3 A lively tank battle was going on. Horton was cheering his foxhole buddies on to get up and watch it. He got up and was shot through the shoulder and lungs. 1946 W. R. Cheves et al. Snow Ridges & Pillboxes v. 116 Pfc. Goll and I were foxhole buddies and had a good hole. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Sept. b2 ‘It's been a rough year for me,’ Miller chuckled, with so many old political foxhole buddies seeking his support. 1994 New Yorker 18 July 39/1 All their painful stories are followed by moments of remembered grief but end in the genuine and ironic laughter of foxhole buddies. foxhole circuit n. originally U.S. (originally, with reference to theatrical shows staged for American troops by the United Service Organization during the Second World War (1939–45)) the circuit of shows going as close as possible to the front lines, as opposed to performances at military bases or hospitals; (later more generally) theatrical shows staged to entertain troops in a war zone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > [noun] > circuit > type of festival circuit1899 small time1910 foxhole circuit1943 1943 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 30 July 4/2 She feels she is only marking time while filling two picture assignments..until she can go out on another tour of the foxhole circuit. 1944 Newsweek 31 July 60 The performers who were selected to make up the first entertainment..wave, as part of USO-Camp Show's ‘Foxhole Circuit’. 2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 15 Oct. 6 In the years after 9/11, with our armies mired in unpopular wars, it was harder to find stars to volunteer for the ‘foxhole circuit’. 2012 V. Gomez & L. Goldstone Lefty 372 With the outbreak of the Korean War, Sunny and Frank Conville worked the foxhole circuit again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.lOE
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