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foxung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
foxung, e; f.
A foxlike trick
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  • Cwæð se Hǽlend him tó: 'Foxas habbað holu' ... Críst geseah his prættas, for ðan þe hé mid sóðfæstnysse ne sóhte þone Hǽlend, ac foxunga wǽron wunigende on him,

      Hml. S. 16, 162.
Etymology
[In ure skemting he (the devil, compared here with the fox) doð raðe a foxing, Misc. 14, 435.]
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