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English
Etymology
From fox + -y.
Pronunciation
Noun
foxy (uncountable)
- (slang) The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).
Adjective
foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)
- Having the qualities of a fox.
- Cunning, sly.
- (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- (of a person, especially a woman) Having reddish-brown hair.
- (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
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.
- (of wine) Having an animal-like odor.
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Translations
having the qualities of a fox