foxess
English
Etymology
From fox + -ess, since 1866.
Noun
foxess (plural foxesses)
- (rare) A female fox.
- 1866, The Land We Love, page 195:
- The fox said he must stay with his foxess, who was in a delicate way, and one of the little ones had been out too late at a hen-roost, and had caught a very bad cold.
- 1903, James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture, page 37:
- Well, you know what goes with the fox–the foxess, or the foxina.
-
Synonyms
- vixen