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▪ I. foxy, a.|ˈfɒksɪ|
[f. fox n. + -y1.]
1. a. Fox-like: esp. crafty, cunning.
1528Roy Rede me Ded. (Arb.) 23 An hole or denne of falce foxy hipocrites. a1536Tindale Wks. (1573) 148 Oh foxy Pharisay. 1601W. Parry Trav. Sir A. Sherley 30 Having merrily passed the time with this foxy fryer. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 62 Modred's narrow foxy face. 1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Dec. 110 Foxy, cunning, wary, clever, tricky, politic. ‘That's a foxy trick.’ ‘The French ambassador is a foxy old bird.’ 1946G. Millar Horned Pigeon xx. 335 And he is much too foxy to let a poor girl even smell at his antecedents. He is so clever that he speaks even his native language without accent. 1957Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (Gloss.) 373 Foxy, sly, clever.
b. Of weather: misleadingly bright.
1876in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1909Westm. Gaz. 10 July 3/1 Fine ‘foxy’ days, when hot sunshine burns the breeze up, don't last. 1933‘L. Luard’ All Hands 240 'Tis foxy old weather.
2. a. Fox-coloured, reddish brown or yellow.
1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. i. 132 There are many patches of a deep, loose, foxy soil. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xiv. 198 Its forehead was high, with a mass of foxy hair over it.
b. Painting. Marked by excessive predominance of reddish tints; over-hot in colouring.
1783Sir J. Reynolds Notes on Du Fresnoy 105 That [style] of Titian, which may be called the Golden Manner, when unskilfully managed becomes what the Painters call Foxy. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 128 They allowed such an excessive brownness in their shadows, as to make them sometimes perfectly foxy. 1861Thornbury Turner II. 342 In some of the England series there is a violent foxy tone, very hot and oppressive.
3. Used to denote various defects of colour and quality resulting from atmospheric conditions, improper treatment, etc. Cf. also fox-mark.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) II. 260 The substance will be what is termed foxy. 1817W. Tucker Family Dyer & Scourer iii. 28 Should the silks appear rusty, or what is known to the dyers by the name of copper burst, or foxy, it is customary to [etc.]. 1830M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 351 Salt..stiffens the clammy soft dough made from new flour, and gives it a fair colour, when otherwise it would be foxy. 1846Young Naut. Dict., Foxey implies ‘a defect in timber of a reddish cast or hue, arising from over age or other causes’. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Turnips when they turn leathery are said to be foxy. 1883in Standard 18 May 6/5 Foxy to fine ordinary Guatemala [Coffee], at 48s. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Foxy, specked, spotted—as with spots of mould or mildew. Also, clouded or uneven in shade of colour..Said of some bad dyeing. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Foxey, timber is said to be foxey when there is an excessive proportion of green sapwood present in it.
4. Of beer, wine, etc.: Turned sour in the course of fermentation, not properly fermented.
1847in Halliw. 1864in Webster.
5. Of grapes: Having the coarse flavour of the fox-grape.
1864in Webster.
6. U.S. slang. Of a woman: attractive, desirable, pretty; sexy.
1913Dialect Notes IV. 21 Foxy, stylish looking, attractive. Usage widespread in Nebraska. ‘She's a foxy looking little lady.’ 1959Esquire Nov. 70 Foxy, beautiful. Example: Man, but she's foxy. 1961R. Russell Sound xii. 218, I mean all the studs in fancy duds and foxy chicks togged to the bricks is gonna be there. 1964L. Hairston in J. H. Clarke Harlem 292 Me and Oleta was hittin' it off fine. And she was lookin' foxier by the minute. 1978J. Hyams Pool xi. 172 The word around town is that she's a foxy lady. 1983Easyriders Feb. 81/1 W/f [white female]..21 years old and foxy, would like to hear from a gorgeous man with a terrific body.
7. Comb., as foxy-eyed, foxy-featured, foxy-looking, foxy-red adjs.
1878Huxley Physiogr. 26 Its inky taste, and the foxy-red sediment which it deposits..attest the presence of iron. 1880W. J. Florence in Theatre (U.S.) Oct. 215 The foxy⁓eyed party near us. 1899S. R. Crockett Black Douglas x. 67 A red, foxy-featured man, with mean and shifty eyes. 1924J. Masefield Sard Harker 56 A middle-aged, foxy-looking man.
Hence ˈfoxiness.
1875T. Laslett Timber viii. 47 Oak timber..in its worst stage of ‘foxiness’. 1889J. Jacobs æsop's Fables I. 209 To him [early man] cunning was foxiness.
Add: ˈfoxily adv.
1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iii. i. 82 The bartender, a stocky young Irishman with a foxily cunning, stupid face and a cynically wise grin. 1983Listener 27 Jan. 14/2 Many Italians regard Fanfani as merely the latest faltering politician to reshuffle the pack. Foxily, however, he has reshuffled it to bring in younger men.
▪ II. foxy
var. foxie. |