Foiling vs Foxling - What's the difference?
foiling | foxling |
The act by which something is foiled; prevention of success.
(hunting) The track of game, such as deer, in the grass.
(architecture) A foil.
A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.
*1837 , The Idler, and breakfast-table companion:
*1904 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook :
As a verb foiling
is .As a noun foxling is
a little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.foiling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the foilings of our expectations
- (Simmonds)
foxling
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tender foxling , not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.
- The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly.