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Vulpine vs Foxly - What's the difference?

vulpine | foxly |

As adjectives the difference between vulpine and foxly

is that vulpine is pertaining to a fox while foxly is like, resembling, or characteristic of a fox; vulpine.

As a noun vulpine

is any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf.

vulpine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a fox.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
    • She dared not raise her eyes above the level of the tea-table, and she almost expected to see a spot of accusing vulpine blood drip down and stain the whiteness of the cloth.
  • Having the characteristics of a fox, foxlike; cunning.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of certain canids called foxes (including the true foxes, the arctic fox and the grey fox); distinguished from the canines, which are regarded as similar to the dog and wolf .
  • * 1980 , Michael Wilson Fox, The Soul of the Wolf , unnumbered page,
    • The family Canidae consists of two main subgroups, the vulpines (foxes) and the canines (wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs), and some intermediate “fox-dog” forms from South America.
  • A person considered vulpine (cunning); a fox.

    • See also

    * canine * lupine * Vulpini (tribe within subfamily Caninae) ----

    foxly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like, resembling, or characteristic of a fox; vulpine.
  • *1917 , Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix :
    • His foxly object was attained. The attention of the hunters was diverted.
  • *1968 , Hugh Latimer, Allan Griffith Chester, Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer :
    • But the children of this world have worldly policy, foxly craft, lionlike cruelty, power to do hurt more than either aspis or basiliscus, engendering and doing all things fraudulently, [...]
  • *2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History :
    • Howe and the army settled into New York where the population was friendly, including a huge contingent of prostitutes whom both Americans and British described as a terrifying lot: “bitch foxly jades, hogs, strums.”
    (Webster 1913)