vulpine
pronunciation
How to pronounce vulpine in British English:
UK [ˈvʌlpaɪn]
How to pronounce vulpine in American English:
US [ˈvʌlˌpaɪn]
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- Adjective:
- resembling or characteristic of a fox
Word Origin
- vulpine (adj.)
- "pertaining to a fox, fox-like," 1620s, from Latin vulpinus "of or pertaining to a fox," from vulpes, earlier volpes (genitive vulpis, volpis) "fox," from PIE *wlpe- "fox" (cognates: Greek alopex "fox").
Example
- 1. They use the method of snowball after , raise vulpine amount year after year to increase .
- 2. Sometimes one came neartomy window , attracted by my light , barked a vulpine curse at me , and thenretreated .
- 3. The crone smiled a vulpine smile .
- 4. Vulpine path : you tell lie as far as possible , because person of their neither one stands up , refute you .
- 5. For sometimes miles at a stretch , rick would see them crouched along the paths the hovercycles cut through the woods , silent and feral , vulpine eyes aglow in the eerie morning light .