Vulpine

Definition: Vulpine

Vulpine

Adjective

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fox; "vulpine cunning".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vulpine" was first used: 1628. (references)

Etymology: Vulpine \Vul"pine\, adjective. [Latin expression vulpinus, from vulpes fox.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Vulpine

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Crosswords: Vulpine

Sometimes one came near to my window, attracted by my light, barked a vulpine curse at me, and then retreated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "vulpine": vulpine opossum ♦ vulpine phalanger ♦ vulpine phalangist. Additional references.

Albanian

prej dhelpre. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, wily), ‏خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, wicked, wily), ‏ثعلبي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хитър като лисица, лисичи (foxy). (various references)

Czech

lišèí (Fox). (various references)

French

vulpin, sournois. (various references)

German

schlau (artful, astute, brightly, canny, clever, cleverly, crafty, cunning, cunningly, cute, foxy, leery, neat, neatly, nifty, sharp, shifty, shrewd, shrewdly, slily, sly, slyly, smart, smartly, sneaky, vulpinely, wily, wise), listig (artful, clever, crafty, cunning, cunningly, foxy, guileful, sly, smart, wily). (various references)

Greek 

πανούργοσ (arch, artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, parlous, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, wily), αλωπεκώδησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

שועלי (cunning, foxy, vulpecular, wily). (various references)

Hungarian

ravasz (acute, artful, astute, be cunning, cagey, cagy, calculating, canny, catchy, colubrine, crafted, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, drafty, draughty, elusive, foxy, gimmicky, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, pawky, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, to know how many beans make five, trappy, tricksy, tricky, trigger, wily), rókaszerû. (various references)

Italian

di volpe. (various references)

Manx

shynnaghoil (foxy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulpinevay

Portuguese

vulpino (foxy, meadow foxtail), traiçoeiro (base-minded, cattish, deceitful, double meaning, insidious, slippery, slippy, snaky, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous), manhoso (cagey, designing, jesuitic, jesuitical, machinate, pawl, sharp, shifty, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily), astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, astute, canny, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, designing, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, leery, longing, Machiavellian, perspicacious, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricksy, tricky, wily). (various references)

Russian 

лисий (foxy, puggish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prepreden (artful, cagey, cagy, cunning, guileful, politic, sharp, shrewd, slick, sly, smart, subtle, tricksy, tricky), lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, designing, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, wily), lisičji (fox). (various references)

Spanish

vulpino (meadow foxtail). (various references)

Swedish

räv- (foxy, fur of a fox), listig (artful, clever, crafty, cunning, deep, dodgy, sharp, shifty, sly, tricky, wily). (various references)

Turkish

tilkiye ait, tilki gibi (crafty, cunning, foxy, sly), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, designing, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy). (various references)

Ukranian 

лисячий (foxy), підступний (astute, cattish, crafty, cunning, dastardly, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, serpentine, skittish, sly, treacherous, wily, witty). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cáo gi� . (various references)

vulpinus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Vulpine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: valine, Valponi, volpine, vulpina, vulpinus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lineup, lupine, unlive, unpile, unveil.

-2 letters: levin, liven, lupin.

-3 letters: evil, lien, lieu, line, lipe, live, lune, nevi, pein, pile, pine, plie, pule, puli, veil, vein, vile, vine.

-4 letters: lei, leu, lev, lie, lin, lip, luv, nil, nip, pen, pie, pin, piu, pul, pun, vie.

-5 letters: el, en, in, li, ne, nu, pe, pi, un.

+3 letters: punitively.

+4 letters: pulverising, pulverizing.

+5 letters: interpluvial, manipulative, suspensively, unprivileged.

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