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foxed
[ fokst ]
adjective
- deceived; tricked.
- stained or spotted a yellowish brown, as by age:
a dog-eared and foxed volume of poetry.
- (of museum specimens of birds and mammals) having melanin pigments that have oxidized with age to a reddish-brown color.
Other Words From
- un·foxed adjective
Example Sentences
He was comprehensively out-foxed by Salmond, the Scottish National Party leader, who now finds himself in a win-win position.
I made him almost foxed, the poor man having but a bad head, and not used I believe nowadays to drink much wine.
I had taken the copy of Graziani's suites off the desk, and was holding it on my lap turning over the old foxed and yellow pages.
A foxed book cannot have the fox marks removed, and such a book should be avoided.
If there are no flimsies, the leaf opposite a plate often shows a set-off from it and is sometimes specially badly foxed.
"The little old foxed Molire," once the property of William Pott, unknown to fame.
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