The fox has long been associated with the adjective “clever.” If you are clever, you are smart, intelligent, bright, shrewd, witty, etc. You are also “astute.”
astute — an adjective meaning “mentally sharp or clever; crafty, wily”
astuto/astuta — the Spanish masculine and feminine cognates of the same meanings
In some tr…
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