Foxy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foxy \Fox"y\, a.
     1. Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or
        looks; wily; cunning.
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              Modred's narrow, foxy face.           --Tennyson.


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     2. Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown
        color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have
        too much of this color.
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     3. Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smelling.
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     4. Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc.,
        not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the
        coarse flavor of the fox grape.
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     5. Attractive in a sexually appealing way; --of women.
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     6. Stylish and sexually attractive; -- of women's clothing;
        as, wearing a foxy new outfit. [Slang]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foxy
       adj : marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
             wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme";
             "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dik";
             "a wily old attorney" [syn: {crafty}, {cunning}, {dodgy},
              {guileful}, {knavish}, {slick}, {sly}, {tricksy}, {tricky},
              {wily}]
       [also: {foxiest}, {foxier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  119 Moby Thesaurus words for "foxy":
     Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, Titian, acute, adust,
     alluring, arch, artful, astute, attractive, auburn, bay,
     bay-colored, bayard, besmirched, blackened, brazen, bronze,
     bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, cagey, cagy, calculating,
     canine, canny, castaneous, chestnut, chestnut-brown, clever,
     copper, copper-colored, coppery, crafty, cunning, cupreous, cute,
     darkened, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, devious,
     diplomatic, discolored, dishonest, disingenuous, doggy, feline,
     ferruginous, foxed, foxlike, guileful, henna, ingenious, inky,
     insidious, inventive, knowing, liver-brown, liver-colored,
     livid-brown, lupine, mahogany, murky, pawky, plotting, politic,
     ready, reddish-brown, resourceful, roan, rubiginous, rufous,
     russet, russety, rust, rust-colored, rusty, scheming, seductive,
     serpentine, sexy, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly,
     smirched, smoky, smooth, snaky, sneaky, soiled, sophistical,
     stained, stealthy, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized,
     strategic, subtile, subtle, sunburned, supple, tactical, tainted,
     tarnished, terra-cotta, trickish, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wary,
     wily, wise, wolfish