foxy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fox=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

foxy, a. 

•  Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.  [1913 Webster]

  "Modred's narrow, foxy face."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smelling.  [1913 Webster]
•  Sour; unpleasant in taste; -- said of wine, beer, etc., not properly fermented; -- also of grapes which have the coarse flavor of the fox grape.  [1913 Webster]
•  Attractive in a sexually appealing way; --of women.  [PJC]
•  Stylish and sexually attractive; -- of women's clothing; as, wearing a foxy new outfit.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

foxy, adj. (foxier, foxiest)
1 of or like a fox.
2 sly or cunning.
3 reddish-brown.
4 (of paper) damaged, esp. by mildew.
5 US sl. (of a woman) sexually attractive.

Derivative

foxily adv. foxiness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

foxy

Brown

N brown, bister ocher, sepia, Vandyke brown, brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown, fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored, brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves, khaki, sun-burnt, tanned.

Redness

N redness, red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry, magenta, damask, purple, flesh color, flesh tint, color, fresh color, high color, warmth, gules, ruby, carbuncle, rose, rust, iron mold, cinnabar, cochineal, fuchsine, ruddle, madder, Indian red, light red, Venetian red, red ink, annotto, annatto, realgar, minium, red lead, redness, rubescence, rubicundity, rubification, erubescence, blush, red, reddish, rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine, rosy, roseate, blowzy, blowed, burnt, rubicund, rubiform, lurid, stammell blood red, russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious, rubineous, rubricate, rubricose, rufulous, rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored, brick-colored, dust-colored, blushing, erubescent, reddened, red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster, warm, hot, foxy.