dog-fox

See also: dogfox

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog +‎ fox.

Noun

dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)

  1. A male fox.
    Synonym: tod
    'Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox, gone to ground' — Pink Floyd, 'Grantchester Meadows' [from the album "Ummagumma" (1969)]
    'Answer'd the dog fox with his howl' — Sir Walter Scott, 'The Lord of the Isles, Canto Third, 26' [The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (1857) p274]
  2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
  3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms
  • (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)
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