foxy
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- Words With Friends
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/ˈfɑksi/
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/ˈfɑksi/ · /ˈfɒksi/
Definition of foxy
10 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (slang, uncountable)The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).
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noun
- (slang, uncountable)The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).
adj
- Having the qualities of a fox.
- Cunning, sly.
- (informal)Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- Of a person, especially a woman, having reddish-brown hair.
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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.”
- Of wine, having an animal-like odor.
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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
- A nickname of the surname Fox.
- (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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