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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or resembling a fox.
  2. adj. Slyly clever; crafty: a foxy scheme.
  3. adj. Having a reddish-brown color.
  4. adj. Discolored, as by age or decay; foxed.
  5. adj. Slang Sensually attractive; sexy.
  6. adj. Having a distinctive sharp flavor or aroma: foxy American grapes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of foxes; resembling or suggestive of a fox; hence, tricky; given to cunning or subtle artifice.
  2. Of the color of the common red fox; rufous; reddish; ferrugineous.
  3. Having the peculiar sickish-sweet taste and smell of the American fox-grape, illustrated in the familiar Concord grape.
  4. said of wine, beer, etc., which has soured in the course of fermentation.
  5. 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.
  6. In painting, marked by a disagreeable, hot quality of color.
  7. 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

  1. adj. having the qualities of a fox
  2. adj. attractive, sexy
  3. adj. of a person red-haired.
  4. adj. of wine Having an animal-like odour

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily; cunning.
  2. 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.
  3. adj. Having the odor of a fox; rank; strong smelling.
  4. 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.
  5. adj. Slang Attractive in a sexually appealing way; --of women.
  6. adj. Slang Stylish and sexually attractive; -- of women's clothing.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. marked by skill in deception

Etymologies

  1. 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)

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  • 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

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