What does foxship mean?
Foxship means The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning..
Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words.
"[…] 'Are we not Wasawahili?' men who obtain their ends by foxship?"
The dingo, however, does not possess the cunning of his foxship; and, unlike the latter, he "gives himself away" by heralding his coming by a peculiar howl, the authorship of which it is impossible to mistake.
I caught a fleeting far-away glimpse of the quarry as he loped across an open field just before re-entering the big swamp-I thought a few things that were anything but complimentary to his foxship, and throwing myself on the ground, […]
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Foxship means The character or qualities of a fox; foxiness; craftiness; cunning..
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Hadst thou foxship to banish him that struck more blows for Rome than thou hast spoken words.
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