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Fouling vs Foxling - What's the difference?

fouling | foxling |

As nouns the difference between fouling and foxling

is that fouling is the adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality while foxling is a little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.

As a verb fouling

is .

fouling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia fouling) (-)
  • The adhesion of a foreign material onto a surface, especially so as to reduce its functionality

    • Derived terms

    * antifouling * foulant

    foxling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.
  • *1837 , The Idler, and breakfast-table companion:
    • 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.
  • *1904 , Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook :
    • 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.