räv

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a fox (a mammal)
Synonym: mickel (“(name for a) fox”)
- 1891, “Det var dans bort i vägen [There was a dance down the road]”, Gustaf Fröding (lyrics), Helfrid Lambert (music), performed by Sven-Ingvars:
  Och en räv stämde in i den lustiga låten, och en uv skrek uhu! ifrån Brynbärsbråten, och de märkte, de hörde det ej. Men uhu! hördes ekot i Getberget skria, och till svar på Nils Uttermans dudelidia, kom det dudeli dudeli dej!
  And a fox joined in the funny [more towards "comically amusing"] song [or maybe sound, in an archaic sense], and an owl cried uhu! [sic] from Brynbärsbråten [capitalized, so perhaps a place name – or perhaps raspberry [dialectal, Värmland] thicket [heap of twigs]], and they didn't notice it, they didn't hear it [and they noticed, they heard it not]. But uhu! the echo was heard screeching from Getberget [The goat mountain], and in response to Nils Utterman's "doddly deea," there came doodly doodly dey!
an experienced (often as "gammal räv") and/or cunning person