Foxy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or resembling a fox.
  • adj. Slyly clever; crafty: a foxy scheme.
  • adj. Having a reddish-brown color.
  • adj. Discolored, as by age or decay; foxed.
  • adj. Slang Sensually attractive; sexy.
  • adj. Having a distinctive sharp flavor or aroma: foxy American grapes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. having the qualities of a fox
  • adj. attractive, sexy
  • adj. red-haired.
  • adj. Having an animal-like odour
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.
  • adj. 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.
  • adj. Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smelling.
  • adj. Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.
  • adj. Attractive in a sexually appealing way; --of women.
  • adj. Stylish and sexually attractive; -- of women's clothing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to or characteristic of foxes; resembling or suggestive of a fox; hence, tricky; given to cunning or subtle artifice.
  • Of the color of the common red fox; rufous; reddish; ferrugineous.
  • Having the peculiar sickish-sweet taste and smell of the American fox-grape, illustrated in the familiar Concord grape.
  • said of wine, beer, etc., which has soured in the course of fermentation.
  • 2. Discolored, as by decay; stained; foxed. See foxed.
  • In painting, marked by a disagreeable, hot quality of color.
  • Penetrating and well acquainted with the ways of the world; sharp; especially, having an air of knowingness: it then signifies a not very estimable character.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by skill in deception
  • Equivalent
    artful   
    Cross Reference
    artful   
    Variant
    foxiest    foxier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    wily    cunning    rank    sour    sexy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hoxie    Roxy    boxy    doxy    epoxy    moxie    oxy    proxy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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