Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Discolored with yellowish-brown stains.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Discolored by incipient decay: said of timber.
- Discolored, stained, or spotted: said of books or prints, with reference to the paper.
- Covered by a foxing, as a shoe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Discolored or stained; -- said of timber, and also of the paper of books or engravings.
- adjective Repaired by foxing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fox .;baffled ;outwitted . - adjective Of paper, having yellowish brown stains.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She had been "foxed" -- herself was but a mere moor-fox.
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In fact, if you look at the dictionary, the definition of 'foxed' is discoloured with yellowish-brown staining, and I fear it might be reasonably appropriate.
The Guardian World News Rupert Neate 2011
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In fact, if you look at the dictionary, the definition of 'foxed' is 'discoloured with yellowish brown staining', and I fear it might be reasonably appropriate.
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In fact, if you look at the dictionary, the definition of 'foxed' is 'discoloured with yellowish brown staining', and I fear it might be reasonably appropriate.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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Lincoln's pay for his first piece of surveying came in the shape of two buckskins, and it was Hannah who "foxed" them on his trousers.
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Two half-drunken Chinamen come along quarrelling and sat down near me, and I 'foxed' I was sound asleep.
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But his features, in spite of irregularity, and a complexion resembling the tone of 'foxed' paper, attracted observation, and rewarded it; his eye had a pleasant twinkle, oddly in contrast with the lines of painful thought upon his forehead, and the severity of strained muscles in the lower part of his face.
The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880
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One old settler relates that for a survey made for him by Lincoln he paid two buckskins, which Hannah Armstrong "foxed" on his pants so that the briars would not wear them out.
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auf dem etwas stockfleckigen Passepartout - stockfleckig was new to me and means with patches caused by mould on textiles, paper, wood - pale, brownish or greyish-black spot with a musty smell - foxed, in fact I had to look up "foxed" too!
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AFP/Getty Images The government has to find a solution to a problem that has so far foxed politicians and regulators.
The Anglo Irish Subordinated-Debt Puzzle Richard Barley 2010
bilby commented on the word foxed
According to bookfinder.com, 'having brown stains or blotches'.
e.g. "Cloth, top edge foxed, fore-edge sl. foxed else fine in d/w."
September 26, 2009
sionnach commented on the word foxed
fore-edge sl. foxed else fine
I takes foxy umbrage at the implication here.
September 26, 2009
bilby commented on the word foxed
Clean your act up, Blotchykins.
September 26, 2009