Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth 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.
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. Specifically applied in dyeing to colors which assume an undesirable reddish shade, due to insufficient soaping or chemicking.
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. having the qualities of a fox
- adj. attractive, sexy
- adj. of a person red-haired.
- adj. of wine Having an animal-like odour
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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. Slang Attractive in a sexually appealing way; --of women.
- adj. Slang Stylish and sexually attractive; -- of women's clothing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by skill in deception
Etymologies
- From fox + -y, from Old English fox, from West Germanic *fukhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz, from Proto-Indo-European *puk-so-, from *puk- (tail). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All prime ministers, even Margaret Thatcher, engage in foxy tactics to disguise tactical retreats in Brussels, and usually get away with it.”
The Guardian: Can David Cameron strike a hard bargain in Brussels?
“It is a hardy variety with some bunch-rot disease resistance, but can easily result in foxy, grapy flavors if not picked early enough.”
“Rob Zombie attempts to bring the word foxy back in "Foxy, Foxy".”
“As for the word foxy, Zombie was unable to bring foxy back.”
“My old friend James, when he sees a pretty girl, calls her foxy.”
“He was a slim red-haired man, not above thirty years of age, the kind of man his enemies would call foxy, with a very courteous and deliberate manner, and he spoke with a slight Scotch accent.”
“That question is what your Majesty might call foxy," said one of the counselors, an old grey fox.”
“Of the former but two kinds are considered suitable, the concord and the isabella, both being varieties of the indigenous labrusca, or so-called foxy-flavoured grape.”
“Maybe if I could get invited to the inauguration?" giggled Amber Lee Ettinger, better known as the foxy Obama Girl whose I Got A Crush On Obama song scored more than 10 million YouTube hits.”
“A cultivar derived from the Vitis labrusca species, Concords are known as fox grapes because of their "foxy" flavor, an irresistibly sweet, floral taste with a fragrance like candied musk.”
The Huffington Post: Laura Silverman: Flight Of The Concords: Grape Sorbet
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foxy’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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color (red)
tiara's color lists rebuilt :)
( visual, colors, red, descriptive, randomness )red, Red, Pink, Cloud, Salmon, Rose, Coral(Pink/Red/Dark), Cramoisy/Modena/C..., Raspberry, Rubious/Ruby, Tomato, Sanguineous/Blood and 483 more...
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Or honey, or baby, or ...
(A Valentine's Day list.)amoret, bonnilasse, ladybird, leikin, leman, love-lass, Phyllis, pout, sweetness, munchkin, darling, sayang and 87 more...
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Animal Characteristics
Any words that have relation to animal characteristics.
lupine, elephantine, swinish, reptilian, mousy, lion-hearted, fishy, hawkish, foxy, leonine, squirrelly, verminous and 3 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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old faves
ones I already liked
vacuole, organelle, debauchle, voluptuous, spry, cattywampus, obscure, occlude, occult, celtic, voracious, ardently and 133 more...
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atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for foxy.

yarb He looked younger than his companion, in spite of his thick, foxy beard.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 4 ch. 11 Sep 18, 2008
johnmperry also: Sensually attractive; sexy. Jul 22, 2008