fox

fox is a 3-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 21 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
2. noun. The European dragonet.
3. noun. The fox shark or thrasher shark; -- called also sea fox. See Thrasher shark, under Shark.
4. noun. A sly, cunning fellow.
5. noun. Rope yarn twisted together, and rubbed with tar; -- used for seizings or mats.
6. noun. A sword; -- so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
7. noun. A tribe of Indians which, with the Sacs, formerly occupied the region about Green Bay, Wisconsin; -- called also Outagamies.
8. noun. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
9. noun. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
10. noun. To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
11. intransitive verb. To turn sour; -- said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
12. noun. alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
13. noun. the Algonquian language of the Fox
14. noun. a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
15. noun. a shifty deceptive person

    Synonyms: dodger, slyboots

16. noun. English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
17. noun. English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
18. noun. the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
19. verb. become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
20. verb. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly

    "These questions confuse even the experts"

    "This question completely threw me"

    Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw

21. verb. deceive somebody

    "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"

    Synonyms: fob, trick

Synonyms

dodger, slyboots, bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw, fob, trick

Common word forms

foxed, foxer, foxes, foxly, foxing

Words from these letters

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