foxy

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Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
16
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ˈfɑksi/
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/ˈfɑksi/ · /ˈfɒksi/

Definition of foxy

10 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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

adj

  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. Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
    “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 […]”
    “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 odor.
  7. With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.
    “For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."”

name

  1. A nickname of the surname Fox.
  2. (British)A nickname of the surname Reynolds.

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Etymology

From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).

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