foxing
verb
Meaning
- To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- To confuse or baffle (someone).
- To act slyly or craftily.
- To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- The discolouration of printed material with brown marks.
- A band of material joining the upper of a shoe to the sole.
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