foxling

plural foxlings

1. A little or young fox; kit; a fox whelp.

   The foxling made himself thoroughly at home. Seizing on a huge turkey's foot from the Sprite's larder, he dragged it into a dark corner, where he growled over it quite horribly.

   1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook

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   The tender foxling, not arrived at the maturity of slyness, who never tasted chicken of his own stealing, shall take him without a ruffle of his plumage — only by pronouncing its dingy brown to be rich crimson.

   1837, The Idler, and breakfast-table companion