Meaning
1 senses(rare)A Cape fox (Vulpes chama).
Examples
16 sentencesThe machines will kill our fat asses.
It is not for asses to like honey.
The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
But they having loaded their asses with the corn went their way.
And when the morning arose, they were sent away with their asses.
Origin
Perhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body lPerhaps from Afrikaans asse (“ashes”), because the fur at the top of the Cape fox's body looks like ash.
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