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"text": "The sound of the clicketting foxes was unmistakable."
},
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"ref": "1677, Cox, Nicholas, The Gentleman's Recreation […]",
"text": "A Fox goeth to Clickitting.",
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"ref": "1951, Douglas Francis St. Leger-Gordon, The way of a fox.",
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"To be in oestrus; to copulate."
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"(intransitive, of a fox or foxes) To be in oestrus; to copulate."
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