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fox⋅y

[fok-see]
–adjective, fox⋅i⋅er, fox⋅i⋅est.
1. foxlike; cunning or crafty; slyly clever.
2. yellowish or reddish brown, as of the color of the common red fox.
3. Slang.
a. sexually appealing; attractive.
b. stylish; modish: a foxy outfit.
c. exciting and appealing, as a place, entertainment, or the like.
4. discolored or foxed: pages of a book that had become foxy.
5. (of a wine) having the pronounced flavor natural to native American grape varieties, as that of fox grapes or of Concord or Catawba grapes.
6. (esp. of a painting) having excessively warm tones; containing too much red.

Origin:
1520–30; 1960–65 for def. 3; fox + -y 1


fox⋅i⋅ly, adverb
fox⋅i⋅ness, noun


1. wily, tricky, sly, artful.
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foxy

  1. mod.
    sexy, especially having to do with a woman. : What a foxy dame!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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