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kit fox

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noun

either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.

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Nearby words

  1. kiswahili,
  2. kit,
  3. kit and caboodle,
  4. kit bag,
  5. kit carson mountain,
  6. kit out,
  7. kit-cat,
  8. kit-cat club,
  9. kit-fox,
  10. kit-kat

Origin of kit fox

1795–1805, Americanism; probably special use of kit3
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Examples from the Web for kit-fox

  • Little, dried-up geezer with a nose like a kit-fox's and a whine to his voice.

    The Uphill Climb|B. M. Bower
British Dictionary definitions for kit-fox

kit fox

noun

another name for swift fox
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for kit-fox

kit-fox

n.

1812, perhaps from a shortening of kitten, in reference to smallness.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper