foxy
adjEtymology From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).
7 senses
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.
- 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 […]1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:
- 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.1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters:
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences 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."2000, Charles H. Kramer, Therapeutic Mastery: Becoming a More Creative and Effective Psychotherapist, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers, →ISBN, page 76:
- Derived terms
- foxily, foxiness, foxy bolete, foxy boxing, unfoxy
- Related terms
- silver-foxy