English

foxlike

From fox + -like.

A compound of fox + -like

Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos ‘the tailed one’

Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz ‘fox’

Proto-West Germanic *fuhs

Old English fox ‘fox’

Middle English fox

English fox

Today it means

adj Resembling or characteristic of a fox.

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