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Foxling vs Fowling - What's the difference?

foxling | fowling |

As a noun foxling

is a little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.

As a verb fowling 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.

    fowling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

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