foxed

American  

[fokst] / fɒkst /

adjective

1. deceived; tricked.

2. stained or spotted a yellowish brown, as by age.

   a dog-eared and foxed volume of poetry.

3. (of museum specimens of birds and mammals) having melanin pigments that have oxidized with age to a reddish-brown color.

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Other Word Forms

• unfoxed adjective

Etymology

Origin of foxed

First recorded in 1605–15; fox + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Given it’s your third language, your English will be excellent, but you will still be foxed by terms such as “on the brink” and “mind games”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2018

All that remained of those days, apart from the stories, were these exotic bottles, their labels brittle and foxed.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 15, 2017

This is not good, but we have found reference to the circumstance that this book is usually — if not always — found in a foxed condition.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2011

Then Lionel Messi won the ball, foxed three opponents and passed.

From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2011

I wonder what he had in mind for you to do with it; as you couldn’t read it, I’m foxed as to what he was a thinking.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman