Fuchs
WordNet
noun
(1) British physicist who was born in Germany and fled Nazi persecution; in the 1940s he passed secret information to the USSR about the development of the atom bomb in the United States (1911-1988)
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Etymology
Old High German fuhs, from common Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *puk-so-, from *peuk- "thick-haired". Near cognates include English fox.
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