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foxy
[ fok-see ]
adjective
- foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
- yellowish or reddish brown, as of the color of the common red fox.
- Slang.
- sexually appealing; attractive.
- stylish; modish:
a foxy outfit.
- exciting and appealing, as a place, entertainment, or the like.
- discolored or foxed:
pages of a book that had become foxy.
- (of a wine) having the pronounced flavor natural to native American grape varieties, as that of fox grapes or of Concord or Catawba grapes.
- (especially of a painting) having excessively warm tones; containing too much red.
foxy
/ ˈfɒksɪ /
adjective
- of or resembling a fox, esp in craftiness
- smelling strongly like a fox
- of a reddish-brown colour
- (of paper, wood, etc) spotted, esp by mildew
- (of wine) having the flavour of fox grapes
- (of oats) having a musty smell as a result of getting wet, fermenting, and drying out
- slang.sexy; sexually attractive
Derived Forms
- ˈfoxiness, noun
- ˈfoxily, adverb
Other Words From
- foxi·ly adverb
- foxi·ness noun
- un·foxy adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of foxy1
Example Sentences
Not only that, there are other threads to resolve: Will Bela actually transfer after her missteps with the Foxy crew?
Mattoo is also the founder of Earios, the first all-female podcast network, through which she and TV writer Camilla Blackett co-hosted a beauty and wellness podcast called “Foxy Browns” during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The same holds for the play, written by Tue Biering for the Copenhagen-based company fit+foxy.
Headlines dubbing her “Foxy Knoxy” circled the globe, fueled by sensational images of her and Sollecito in a tender moment outside the murder scene and in a store buying undergarments for Knox, whose apartment had become a crime scene.
She called upon her fashion foremothers — Foxy Brown, Lil’ Kim — taking inspiration from music videos of the late ’90s and early 2000s.
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