foxess
nounEtymology From fox + -ess, since 1866.
1
Rare A female fox.
- 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.1866, The Land We Love, page 195:
- Well, you know what goes with the fox–the foxess, or the foxina.1903, James Lane Allen, The Mettle of the Pasture, page 78:
- Synonyms
- vixen