foxlike

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos

Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz

Old English fox

Middle English fox

English fox

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-West Germanic *-līk

Old English -līċ

Middle English -like

English -like

English foxlike

From fox + -like.

foxlike (comparative more foxlike, superlative most foxlike)

Resembling or characteristic of a fox.
Antonym: unfoxlike
- 1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 52: Need”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 849:
  “Nynaeve did not have to see her face to know it had large blue eyes and a foxlike shape.."