fox vs wolf
Definitions
noun
- a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
- English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
- English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
- the Algonquian language of the Fox
Examples
As sea levels rose and the northern Channel Islands separated, each fox population became genetically distinct.
He let a neighbourly grin slide over his foxy face.
Fox relied heavily on the strength of his personal image as a caudillo, which is by no means a new phenomenon in Mexican politics.
Definitions
noun
- Austrian composer (1860-1903)
- German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
Examples
This was a sad day indeed for the big bad wolf of the banking world, and not just because it must forego those rich pickings it planned to cream off from two billion cash machine transactions a year.
He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him.
Asked about parents who choose not to vaccinate their children against HPV, the virologist Nathan Wolfe, author of the new book "The Viral Storm," told me: "Basically the decision to not vaccinate risks not only cancer for their kids but cancer for anyone their kids have sex with.