Fuchs

From German Fuchs.

• IPA^(key): /fjuːks/

Fuchs

1. A surname​.

• fuchsia

• Fugs, fuks, fuksch, fòcks, vucks

From Old High German fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”). Cognate with German Fuchs, Dutch vos, English fox, also Sanskrit पुच्छ (puccha, “tail”), Tocharian B päkā (“tail, chowry”).

• (Zurich) IPA^(key): /fuxs/

Fuchs m (plural Füchs, diminutive Füchsli)

1. fox

From Old High German fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos (“the tailed one”), from *puḱ- (“tail”). Cognate with English fox, Sanskrit पुच्छ (púccha).

• IPA^(key): /fʊks/

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• Rhymes: -ʊks

Fuchs m (genitive Fuchses, plural Füchse, diminutive Füchslein n or Füchschen n, feminine Füchsin)

1. fox (animal)

   Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen. Gib sie wieder her!

   Fox, you stole the goose. Bring it back again!

   (line from a popular children’s song)

2. (informal) a clever or cunning person

   Er ist ein ganz schöner Fuchs.

   He is a really handsome fox.

3. (informal) a red-haired person

   Unser Paul ist ja ein kleiner Fuchs.

   Our Paul is a little redhead.

4. (card games) In Doppelkopf, the ace of diamonds, which earns a side of players an extra point if they win it from the other side

   Ich hatte nur vier Trümpfe und darunter beide Füchse.

   I had only four trumps and among them were both aces of diamonds.

(canids) Hund; Kojote, Hund, Fuchs, Schakal, Wolf ^{(Category: de:Canids)}

• Bastard-Fuchs
• Brandfuchs
• Falklandfuchs
• Feuerfuchs
• Fuchsammer (“fox sparrow”), Passerella iliaca
• Fuchsart (“fox species”)
• fuchsartig (“vulpine”)
• Fuchsauge (“true lover's knot, herb Paris”), Paris quadrifolia
• Fuchsbandwurm (“fox tapeworm”), Echinococcus multilocularis
• Fuchsbau (“fox's den”)
• fuchsig
• fuchsrot
• Fuchsschwanz (“fox's brush”)
• Fuchsstute (“chestnut mare”)
• Mauerfuchs
• Obstfuchs
• Seefuchs
• Sparfuchs
• Taktikfuchs

• ausgefuchst (ausgefuchster, am ausgefuchstesten)
• fussig
• fuchsteufelswild
• fuchsteufelswild werden (“to go apeshit”)

• → Danish: fuks
  • → Icelandic: fúx
• → Norwegian: fuks
• → Swedish: fux

Fuchs ? (genitive Fuchs)

1. A common surname​ originating as a nickname.
2. A German Jewish surname​.

• Fuchs in Duden online