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I'm having a hard time finding reference to your usage Bill, but I did find this:
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt1434.html
good looking girls were foxes when I was in high school...
edit:
found this on further search:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foxingv. foxed, fox·ing, fox·es
v. tr.
1. To trick or fool by ingenuity or cunning; outwit.
2. To baffle or confuse.
3. To make (beer) sour by fermenting.
4. To repair (a shoe) by attaching a new upper.
5. Obsolete. To intoxicate.edit II:
from infoplease:
fox•ing
Pronunciation: (fok'sing), [key]
—n.
1. material used to cover the upper portion of a shoe.
2. discoloration, as of book leaves or prints.
and from Webster's via the previously linked page(I didn't scroll down far enough...):
foxing
Fox \Fox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Foxed; p. pr. & vb. n. Foxing.] [See Fox, n., cf. Icel. fox imposture.]
1. To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. --Pepys.
2. To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
3. To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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