Etymology

foxhole

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Today it means: The burrow in the ground where a fox lives. Full definition →

Middle English foxhol ← Old English foxhol
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromfoxhol
  2. Middle English · inherited fromfoxhol
  3. English todayfoxhole

From Middle English foxhol, from Old English foxhol, equivalent to fox + hole.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfoxhol all →

Foxhall

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.