silver fox

English

sense 1

sense 2

sense 3 (George Clooney)

Noun

silver fox (plural silver foxes)

2. A melanistic red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with silver to black fur.
4. A domestic rabbit of a rare breed with silvery-black fur.
6. (colloquial) An attractive man who has graying hair.

   Coordinate term: silver vixen

   • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

     My surprise visitor was Marcus, arriving early for the party. In tow he had a mean silver fox, a curator who was programming an encyclopedic exhibition of the anti-epoch to which Marcus and I belonged at a major museum.

   • 2023 August 10, Zoe Williams, “Ripped, hot and in your 50s? You are now, officially, ‘beekeeping age’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It’s more useful as a gender neutral term, saving the hassle of constant translation – Milf to Dilf, cougar to silver fox, mutton dressed up as lamb to beef dressed up as veal.

Derived terms

• silver-foxy

Translations

melanistic fox

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀狐／银狐 (zh) (yínhú)

• French: renard argenté (fr) m
• German: Silberfuchs m, Silberfüchsin f
• Japanese: ギンギツネ (ja) (gingitsune)
• Nivkh: ӿерф (herf)
• Romanian: vulpe argintie (ro) f
• Russian: чёрно-бу́рая лиса́ f (čórno-búraja lisá), чернобу́рка (ru) f (černobúrka)
• Spanish: zorro plateado m
• Swedish: silverräv (sv) c
• Volapük: largentarenar

Further reading

• silver fox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia