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Definition of Dogfox
1. n. A male fox. See the Note under Dog,
Definition of Dogfox
1. a male fox [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogfox
Literary usage of Dogfox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"The petulant bark of the dogfox is hushed as he too moves with stealthy tread in
search of prey. The stars come out, the shadows blacken ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... no very skilful arithmeticians, to say how many Irishmen might live luxuriously
on the best of potatoes, mealy or waxy, at the cost of one old dogfox. ..."
3. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (1912)
"j eaten dry cheese, Nestor, and that same dogfox, Ulysses, is not prov'd worth
a blackberry. They set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that ..."
4. Imaginary conversations of literary men and statesmen by Walter Savage Landor (1828)
"I never will believe, till I see it, that the best dogfox upon earth could hit
her eye." Sir Fire went toward the shaven sailor and said I know not what, ..."
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