Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Tricked cunningly ", 5 letters:
foxed

Alternative clues for the word foxed

Word definitions for foxed in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fox \Fox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foxed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Foxing .] [See Fox , n., cf. Icel. fox imposture.] To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. --Pepys. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Of paper, having yellowish brown stains. v (en-past of: fox ); baffled; outwitted.

Usage examples of foxed.

Hilary ill with the aspirin both the brothers would have died in the greenhouse, the bundle in the flue would have been taken out by Mrs Fawcett, who was somewhere in the garden waiting to do it, and everyone would have been foxed.

I’d been foxed once or twice by scufflers who melted away while I was concentrating on a spider or a housecat.