[f. FOX sb. + -ERY.] The character, manners, or behavior of a fox; wiliness, cunning.

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c. 1400.  Rom. Rose, 6793.

        I … have wel lever, sooth to sey,
Bifore the puple patre and prey,
And wrye me in my foxerye
Under a cope of papelardye.

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c. 1540.  Pilgr. Tale, 278, in Thynne’s Animadv. (1865), App. i. 85.

        That I had rehersid nothing but papry,
sprong owt of Antichrist, full of foxry.

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1893.  R. F. Burton, trans. Il Pentamerone, I. 178. The fox, never dreaming that the other was a quintessence of foxery, found a woman more a fox than herself.

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