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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


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