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Dutch
Etymology
Compound of vos (“fox”) + rekel (“male canine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɔsˌreː.kəl/
- Hyphenation: vos‧re‧kel
Noun
vosrekel m (plural vosrekels, diminutive vosrekeltje n)
- a male fox
- 1927 February 9, "De zilvervosfokkerij in Noorwegen", Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, evening edition, page 2.
De vos leeft in monogamie vertelde de directeur, en kiest zijn echtgenoote voor het leven; er bestaat vaak een aandoenlijke gehechtheid tusschen beiden, wat niet weg neemt, dat het eens gebeurt was, dat een vosrekel in een kwade l[uim?] zijn echtgenoote den strot had afgebeten.- The fox lives in monomogamy, the director told, and chooses his female partner for live; there often exists a moving attachment between both, which doesn't prevent that it sometimes happens that a male fox in a bad mood had bitten his female partner's throat off.
1939 March 8, “Een tijger wordt gefopt”, in De Tijd:„Goed,” antwoordde de vosrekel, „maar is het niet beter dat ik bij onze jongen blijf?”- "All right," the male fox answered, "but isn't it better if I stay with our youngs?"
1941 September 27, “De Zilvervos”, in Haagsche Post, page 14:En inderdaad heeft Daltons vosrekel, gehouden in zg. wilde farming, […] den slimmen vos, pionierpelsfokker Dalton, beloond met een vijftal zilvergemarkeerde puppies of welpen.- And Dalton's male fox, kept in so-called wild farming, has indeed rewarded the clever fox, pioneering pelt breeder Dalton, with a number of five silver-marked pups or whelps.
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