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Foxling vs Fopling - What's the difference?

foxling | fopling |

As nouns the difference between foxling and fopling

is that foxling is a little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp while fopling is (archaic) a petty fop.

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.

    fopling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A petty fop.
    • (Landor)
    (Webster 1913)