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Vinony

foxy

adjective

  1. like a fox
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɑksi/ / /ˈfɒksi/

adj

Etymology: From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).

  1. Having the qualities of a fox.
  2. Cunning, sly.
  3. Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
  4. Of a person, especially a woman, having reddish-brown hair.
  5. Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.

    “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.”

  6. Of wine, having an animal-like odor.
  7. With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.

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

name

Etymology: From Reynard, a fox in European folklore.

  1. A nickname of the surname Reynolds.

noun

Etymology: From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).

  1. The recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).