Etymology

dog-fox

Today it means: A male fox. Full definition →

Middle English dogge fox
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromdogge fox
  2. English todaydog-fox

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.