foxy

See also: Foxy

English

Etymology

From fox +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑksi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɒksi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒksi
• Hyphenation: fox‧y

Noun

foxy (uncountable)

1. (slang) The recreational drug 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).

Adjective

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

1. Having the qualities of a fox.
2. Cunning, sly.
3. (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
4. (of a person, especially a woman) Having reddish-brown hair.
5. (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colours.
   • 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:

     His eye for colour was so exquisite that I do not think there is a single instance in all his works of a heated tint which is called foxy. This cannot be said of Rubens or Rembrandt […]

   • 1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters:

     Although the skies of Brydael's pictures are often broken with rather heavy masses of orange and yellow clouds, yet, taking him altogether, he was not a 'foxy' painter; on the contrary, there is a silvery coolness about some of his pictures which pleases us.

6. (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sexy

Derived terms

• foxily
• foxiness
• foxy boxing

 

Related terms

• silver-foxy

Translations

having the qualities of a fox

• Bulgarian: лисичи (bg) (lisiči)
• Hungarian: rókás, rókaszerű
• Irish: sionnachúil
• Japanese: フォクシー (fokushī)
• Polish: lisi (pl) m
• Russian: ли́сий (ru) (lísij)
• Spanish: zorruno (es)
• Swedish: rävaktig (sv)

attractive, sexy

• Finnish: seksikäs (fi), viettelevä (fi)
• German: sexy (de), scharf (de), geil (de)
• Hungarian: cicás, cica (hu), csinos (hu), csini (hu), dögös (hu), szexi (hu)
• Irish: mealltach, téisiúil
• Russian: сексапи́льный (ru) (sɛksapílʹnyj)
• Swedish: snygg (sv)

(of a person) red-haired

• Bulgarian: червеникав (bg) (červenikav), риж (bg) (riž)
• French: roux (fr)
• Hungarian: répafejű
• Russian: ры́жий (ru) (rýžij)
• Spanish: pelirrojo (es)
• Swedish: rödhårig (sv)

(of wine)

• Bulgarian: прокиснал (bg) (prokisnal)
• French: foxé (fr)
• Russian: проки́сший (ru) (prokísšij) (musty)