fox terrier

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   small lively black-and-white terriers formerly used to dig out foxes

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Questions about fox terrier

What does fox terrier mean?

fox terrier means "small lively black-and-white terriers formerly used to dig out foxes".

Is fox terrier a common word?

fox terrier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.