dog-fox
1. A male fox. (Cf. dog n.1 2, 18 b.)
| 1576 Turberv. Venerie 183 The female of a foxe is called a bitche and he himselfe a doggefoxe. a 1659 Osborn Misc. Wks. (1673) 613 A Dog-Fox and an Ordinary Bitch will generate. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones x. vii, We have got the dog-fox, I warrant the bitch is not far off. 1880 Times 2 Nov. 4/6 A full-brushed, high-conditioned dog-fox. |
b. Applied to a man.
| 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. iv. 12 That same dog-fox Vlisses. |
2. The name of certain small burrowing animals of the family Canidæ, as the corsac, resembling both the dog and the fox.