All fox synonyms
fox
F f verb fox
- total β constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- eclipse β Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- outstrip β to outdo; surpass; excel.
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- pretend β to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- dupe β duplicate.
- deceive β If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- hoodwink β to deceive or trick.
- delude β If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
- flimflam β a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- scam β a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- diddle β If someone diddles you, they take money from you dishonestly or unfairly.
- gull β a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- snow β Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905β80, English novelist and scientist.
- hoax β something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
- outfox β to outwit; outsmart; outmaneuver: Politics is often the art of knowing how to outfox the opposition.
- bluff β A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
- spoof β a mocking imitation of someone or something, usually light and good-humored; lampoon or parody: The show was a spoof of college life.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- bamboozle β To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- kid β Thomas, 1558β94, English dramatist.
- chicane β a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- juke β to make a move intended to deceive (an opponent).
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- transcend β to rise above or go beyond; overpass; exceed: to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.
- best β Best is the superlative of good.
- better β Better is the comparative of good.
- outshine β to surpass in shining; shine more brightly than.
- overrun β to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
- clobber β You can refer to someone's possessions, especially their clothes, as their clobber.
- bash β A bash is a party or celebration, especially a large one held by an official organization or attended by famous people.
- outsmart β to get the better of (someone); outwit.
- gyp β a male college servant, as at Cambridge and Durham.
noun fox
- mutt β a dog, especially a mongrel.
- pooch β a dog.
- pup β a young dog; puppy.
- insect β any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- rodent β belonging or pertaining to the gnawing or nibbling mammals of the order Rodentia, including the mice, squirrels, beavers, etc.
- ant β Ants are small crawling insects that live in large groups.
- mosquito β any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and yellow fever.
- flea β any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap.
- tomato β any of several plants belonging to the genus Lycopersicon, of the nightshade family, native to Mexico and Central and South America, especially the widely cultivated species L. lycopersicum, bearing a mildly acid, pulpy, usually red fruit eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
- dish β Slang. to gossip about: They talked all night, dishing their former friends.
- cur β A cur is an unfriendly dog, especially a mongrel.
- wolf β any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.
- chow β Food can be referred to as chow.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- dingo β a wolflike, wild dog, Canis familiaris dingo, of Australia, having a reddish- or yellowish-brown coat.
- hyena β a doglike carnivore of the family Hyaenidae, of Africa, southwestern Asia, and south central Asia, having a coarse coat, a sloping back, and large teeth and feeding chiefly on carrion, often in packs.
- coyote β A coyote is a small wolf which lives in the plains of North America.