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Foxling vs Fooling - What's the difference?

foxling | fooling |

As nouns the difference between foxling and fooling

is that foxling is a little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp while fooling is the act of one who fools.

As a verb fooling is

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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.

    fooling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who fools.
  • * Janet Schaw, Journal of a Lady of Quality
    • I laugh at him and use every little Art in my power to make him view things in a more cheerful light, but he knows better than I do, and tho' his good nature and politeness make him appear to be diverted with my foolings , I am sensible they do not amuse his melancholy.