foxy

From fox +‎ -y.

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒksi
• Hyphenation: fox‧y

foxy (uncountable)

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

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 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.

6. (of wine) Having an animal-like odor.
7. (chiefly philosophy) With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.

   Antonym: hedgehoggy

   • 2000, Charles H. Kramer, Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:

     For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."

• See also Thesaurus:sexy

• silver-foxy