Colfox Family History
Colfox Surname Meaning
From Middle English colfox ‘coalfox’ (Old English col ‘coal charcoal’ + fox ‘fox’) used to denote a sly or cunning person.
As in Chaucer's description of ‘a collfox ful of sly iniquitee’ in the Nun's Priest's Tale (about 1390).
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
