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English
Etymology
From fox + -ling.
Noun
foxling (plural foxlings)
- A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.
- 1837, The Idler, and breakfast-table companion:
- The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.
1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook:The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly.
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