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Confidant vs Vulpine - What's the difference?

confidant | vulpine |

As nouns the difference between confidant and vulpine

is that confidant is a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend while vulpine is any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .

As an adjective vulpine is

pertaining to a fox.

confidant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend
    • You love me for no other end / Than to become my confidant and friend; / As such I keep no secret from your sight. — Dryden.

    See also

    * confidante ----

    vulpine

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a fox.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
    • She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
  • Having the characteristics of a fox, foxlike; cunning.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .
  • * 1980 , Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf , unnumbered page,
    • The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.
  • A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.

    • See also

    * canine * lupine * Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae) ----