English Explanatory Dictionary

fox-drunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Crafty and sneaky when drunk.

Word forms

fox-drunk more fox-drunk most fox-drunk

Etymology

Coined in 1592 by Thomas Nashe in Pierce Penniless, His supplication to the Divell as one of eight types of drunkard named after different animals.

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