Foxy

Quick meaning: Foxy is a noun meaning Having the qualities of a fox.

Meaning

Having the qualities of a fox.

More Meanings

1. Cunning, sly.
2. (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
3. Of a person, especially a woman, having reddish-brown hair.
4. (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
5. (wine) Of wine, having an animal-like odor.
6. (slang) The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).
7. (chiefly philosophy) With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.

Example Sentences

For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."

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 […]

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.

Word Forms

• foxier
• foxiest

Synonyms for foxy

Depending on context, synonyms include cunning, artful, knavish, guileful, wily, sly.

Antonyms for foxy

Common opposites include hedgehoggy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slick, knavish, tricky, wily, sly, cunning.

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