Foxing vs Foxling - What's the difference?
foxing | foxling |
The discolouration of printed material with brown marks
A band of material joining the upper of a shoe to the sole.
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 nouns the difference between foxing and foxling
is that foxing is the discolouration of printed material with brown marks while foxling is a little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.As a verb foxing
is .foxing
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(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.