foxyadj.

Brit.

/ˈfɒksi/, U.S.

/ˈfɑksi/

Etymology: < fox n. + -y suffix¹.

a. Fox-like: esp. crafty, cunning.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective]

warec888

craftyOE

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foxc1175

slya1200

hinderc1200

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wilyc1330

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artificial?a1475

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slapea1500

shrewdc1525

craftly1526

foxy1528

gleering?1533

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wily beguile1550

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fine1559

todly1571

practic1585

subdolous1588

captious1590

witryff1598

cautel1606

cunninga1616

versute1616

shiftfula1618

artificious1624

insidiary1625

canny1628

lapwing-like1638

pawky?a1640

tricksome1648

callid1656

versutious1660

artful1663

slim1674

dexterous1701

trickish1705

supple1710

slid1719

vulpinary1721

tricksy1766

trickful1775

sneck-drawing1786

tricky1786

louche1819

sneck-drawn1820

slyish1828

vulpine1830

kokum1839

spidery1843

dodgy1861

ladino1863

carney1881

slinky1951

1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe Ded. sig. a iij An hole or denne of falce foxy hipocrites.

a1536 W. Tyndale Wks. (1573) 148 Oh foxy Pharisay.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 228 Modred's narrow foxy face.

1895 W. 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.’

1946 G. 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.

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues Gloss. 373/2 Foxy, sly, clever, good.

b. Of weather: misleadingly bright.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [adjective] > misleadingly

foxy1876

1876 in Eng. Dial. Dict.

1909 Westm. 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.

a. Fox-coloured, reddish brown or yellow.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red

rustya1398

hepaticc1420

horseflesh1530

rubiginousa1538

iron1587

bricky1615

ferrugineous1633

sand-reda1639

brickish1648

ferruginous1656

lateritious1656

brick-coloured1675

blood bay1684

testaceous1688

rust-coloureda1691

brick-red1740

brick-dust-like1765

maroon1771

rufous1782

brick-dusty1817

rusted1818

worm red1831

brownish-red1832

brown-red1835

foxy1850

rust1854

henna-coloured1865

chestnut-red1882

terra-cotta1882

copper-red1883

fox-red1910

oxblood1918

tony1921

henna-brown1931

henna-red2002

1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 132 There are many patches of a deep, loose, foxy soil.

1879 G. 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > excessively red

foxy1783

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > marked by specific colour

ambery?1771

foxy1783

silver-pointed1913

1783 J. Reynolds Notes Mason's tr. Dufresnoy 105 That [style] of Titian, which may be called the Golden Manner, when unskilfully managed becomes what the Painters call Foxy.

1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 128 They allowed such an excessive brownness in their shadows, as to make them sometimes perfectly foxy.

1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. 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 n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > resulting from exposure to atmosphere

foxy1807

winded1824

1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 260 The substance will be what is termed foxy.

1817 W. 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.].

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. x. 351 Salt..stiffens the clammy soft dough made from new flour, and gives it a fair colour, when otherwise it would be foxy.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Foxey implies ‘a defect in timber of a reddish cast or hue, arising from over age or other causes’.

1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Turnips when they turn leathery are said to be foxy.

1883 in Standard 18 May 6/5 Foxy to fine ordinary Guatemala [Coffee], at 48s.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Foxy,..2. Specked, spotted—as with spots of mould or mildew. Also, clouded or uneven in shade of colour..Said of some bad dyeing.

1888 Lockwood'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.

ΚΠ

1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

5. Of grapes: Having the coarse flavour of the fox-grape.

ΚΠ

1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

6. U.S. slang. Of a woman: attractive, desirable, pretty; sexy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective] > sexually attractive > of a woman

foxy1913

phat1963

bootylicious1994

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire > specifically of a woman

lush1891

sexy1912

slutty1912

foxy1913

leggy1927

floozy?1930

sultry1940

nubile1944

1913 Dial. Notes 4 21 Foxy, stylish looking, attractive. Usage widespread in Nebraska. ‘She's a foxy looking little lady.’

1959 Esquire Nov. 70 Foxy, beautiful. Example: Man, but she's foxy.

1961 R. Russell Sound xii. 218 I mean all the studs in fancy duds and foxy chicks togged to the bricks is gonna be there.

1963 L. Hairston in Freedomways Winter 56 Me and Oleta was hittin' it off fine. And she was lookin' foxier by the minute.

1978 J. Hyams Pool xi. 172 The word around town is that she's a foxy lady.

1983 Easyriders Feb. 81/1 W/f [white female]..21 years old and foxy, would like to hear from a gorgeous man with a terrific body.

Compounds

foxy-eyed, foxy-featured, foxy-looking, foxy-red adjs.

ΚΠ

1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography ii. 26 Its inky taste, and the foxy-red sediment which it deposits..attest the presence of iron.

1880 W. J. Florence in Theatre (U.S.) Oct. 215 The foxy~eyed party near us.

1899 S. R. Crockett Black Douglas x. 67 A red, foxy-featured man, with mean and shifty eyes.

1924 J. Masefield Sard Harker 56 A middle-aged, foxy-looking man.

Derivatives

ˈfoxiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > resulting from exposure to atmosphere

windedness1595

foxiness1875

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun]

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cautelousness1584

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policy1587

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dexterity1656

insidiousnessa1677

versuteness1685

pawkiness1687

sleight-hand1792

pawkery1820

vulpinism1851

downiness1865

foxiness1875

slimness1899

slypussness1908

1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees viii. 47 Oak timber..in its worst stage of ‘foxiness’.

1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 209 To him [early man] cunning was foxiness.

Draft additions 1993

ˈfoxily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb]

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craftilyc1225

craftlyc1225

slylyc1275

fellyc1300

quaintc1300

quaintlyc1325

sleightlyc1330

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sly1370

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wililya1400

wilyc1400

subtilelyc1405

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semylyc1440

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sleightily1549

artificially1566

cunningly1603

versutely1616

artfully1631

subdolously1638

serpentinely1656

slimlya1680

pawkily1714

politically1764

trickfullyc1790

trickishly1824

leerily1859

dodgily1868

trickily1895

foxily1933

1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iii. i. 82 The bartender, a stocky young Irishman with a foxily cunning, stupid face and a cynically wise grin.

1983 Listener 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	foxy
释义	foxyadj. Brit. /ˈfɒksi/, U.S. /ˈfɑksi/ Etymology: < fox n. + -y suffix¹. 1. a. Fox-like: esp. crafty, cunning. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] warec888 craftyOE hinderyeapc1000 yepec1000 foxc1175 slya1200 hinderc1200 quaint?c1225 wrenchfulc1225 wiltfula1250 wilyc1330 subtle1340 cautelous138. sleightful1380 subtile1387 enginousa1393 wilfula1400 wilyc1407 sleighty1412 serpentinec1422 ginnousa1425 wittya1425 semyc1440 artificial?a1475 sleight1495 slapea1500 shrewdc1525 craftly1526 foxy1528 gleering?1533 foxish1535 insidious1545 vafrous1548 wily beguile1550 wilely1556 fine1559 todly1571 practic1585 subdolous1588 captious1590 witryff1598 cautel1606 cunninga1616 versute1616 shiftfula1618 artificious1624 insidiary1625 canny1628 lapwing-like1638 pawky?a1640 tricksome1648 callid1656 versutious1660 artful1663 slim1674 dexterous1701 trickish1705 supple1710 slid1719 vulpinary1721 tricksy1766 trickful1775 sneck-drawing1786 tricky1786 louche1819 sneck-drawn1820 slyish1828 vulpine1830 kokum1839 spidery1843 dodgy1861 ladino1863 carney1881 slinky1951 1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe Ded. sig. a iij An hole or denne of falce foxy hipocrites. a1536 W. Tyndale Wks. (1573) 148 Oh foxy Pharisay. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 228 Modred's narrow foxy face. 1895 W. 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.’ 1946 G. 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. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues Gloss. 373/2 Foxy, sly, clever, good. b. Of weather: misleadingly bright. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > fine weather > [adjective] > misleadingly foxy1876 1876 in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1909 Westm. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red rustya1398 hepaticc1420 horseflesh1530 rubiginousa1538 iron1587 bricky1615 ferrugineous1633 sand-reda1639 brickish1648 ferruginous1656 lateritious1656 brick-coloured1675 blood bay1684 testaceous1688 rust-coloureda1691 brick-red1740 brick-dust-like1765 maroon1771 rufous1782 brick-dusty1817 rusted1818 worm red1831 brownish-red1832 brown-red1835 foxy1850 rust1854 henna-coloured1865 chestnut-red1882 terra-cotta1882 copper-red1883 fox-red1910 oxblood1918 tony1921 henna-brown1931 henna-red2002 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 132 There are many patches of a deep, loose, foxy soil. 1879 G. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > excessively red foxy1783 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > marked by specific colour ambery?1771 foxy1783 silver-pointed1913 1783 J. Reynolds Notes Mason's tr. Dufresnoy 105 That [style] of Titian, which may be called the Golden Manner, when unskilfully managed becomes what the Painters call Foxy. 1821 W. M. Craig Lect. Drawing ii. 128 They allowed such an excessive brownness in their shadows, as to make them sometimes perfectly foxy. 1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. 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 n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > resulting from exposure to atmosphere foxy1807 winded1824 1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) II. 260 The substance will be what is termed foxy. 1817 W. 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.]. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. x. 351 Salt..stiffens the clammy soft dough made from new flour, and gives it a fair colour, when otherwise it would be foxy. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. Foxey implies ‘a defect in timber of a reddish cast or hue, arising from over age or other causes’. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) Turnips when they turn leathery are said to be foxy. 1883 in Standard 18 May 6/5 Foxy to fine ordinary Guatemala [Coffee], at 48s. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Foxy,..2. Specked, spotted—as with spots of mould or mildew. Also, clouded or uneven in shade of colour..Said of some bad dyeing. 1888 Lockwood'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. ΚΠ 1847 in J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 5. Of grapes: Having the coarse flavour of the fox-grape. ΚΠ 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 6. U.S. slang. Of a woman: attractive, desirable, pretty; sexy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective] > sexually attractive > of a woman foxy1913 phat1963 bootylicious1994 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire > specifically of a woman lush1891 sexy1912 slutty1912 foxy1913 leggy1927 floozy?1930 sultry1940 nubile1944 1913 Dial. Notes 4 21 Foxy, stylish looking, attractive. Usage widespread in Nebraska. ‘She's a foxy looking little lady.’ 1959 Esquire Nov. 70 Foxy, beautiful. Example: Man, but she's foxy. 1961 R. Russell Sound xii. 218 I mean all the studs in fancy duds and foxy chicks togged to the bricks is gonna be there. 1963 L. Hairston in Freedomways Winter 56 Me and Oleta was hittin' it off fine. And she was lookin' foxier by the minute. 1978 J. Hyams Pool xi. 172 The word around town is that she's a foxy lady. 1983 Easyriders Feb. 81/1 W/f [white female]..21 years old and foxy, would like to hear from a gorgeous man with a terrific body. Compounds foxy-eyed, foxy-featured, foxy-looking, foxy-red adjs. ΚΠ 1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography ii. 26 Its inky taste, and the foxy-red sediment which it deposits..attest the presence of iron. 1880 W. J. Florence in Theatre (U.S.) Oct. 215 The foxy~eyed party near us. 1899 S. R. Crockett Black Douglas x. 67 A red, foxy-featured man, with mean and shifty eyes. 1924 J. Masefield Sard Harker 56 A middle-aged, foxy-looking man. Derivatives ˈfoxiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > resulting from exposure to atmosphere windedness1595 foxiness1875 the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun] listOE wiþercraftc1175 wilta1230 craftc1275 sleightc1275 engine?a1300 quaintisec1300 vaidiec1325 wilec1374 cautelc1375 sophistryc1385 quaintnessc1390 voisdie1390 havilon?a1400 foxeryc1400 subtletyc1400 undercraftc1400 practic?a1439 callidityc1450 policec1450 wilinessc1450 craftiness1484 gin1543 cautility1554 cunning1582 cautelousness1584 panurgy1586 policy1587 foxshipa1616 cunningnessa1625 subdolousness1635 dexterity1656 insidiousnessa1677 versuteness1685 pawkiness1687 sleight-hand1792 pawkery1820 vulpinism1851 downiness1865 foxiness1875 slimness1899 slypussness1908 1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees viii. 47 Oak timber..in its worst stage of ‘foxiness’. 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop I. 209 To him [early man] cunning was foxiness. Draft additions 1993 ˈfoxily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adverb] foxlyc1175 craftilyc1225 craftlyc1225 slylyc1275 fellyc1300 quaintc1300 quaintlyc1325 sleightlyc1330 subtly1340 sly1370 espyinglya1382 wisely1390 wililya1400 wilyc1400 subtilelyc1405 ginnouslya1425 semylyc1440 serpentlya1450 small?c1450 cautelously1477 politicly1477 sleightfullyc1480 artificiously1536 insidiously1545 sleightily1549 artificially1566 cunningly1603 versutely1616 artfully1631 subdolously1638 serpentinely1656 slimlya1680 pawkily1714 politically1764 trickfullyc1790 trickishly1824 leerily1859 dodgily1868 trickily1895 foxily1933 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iii. i. 82 The bartender, a stocky young Irishman with a foxily cunning, stupid face and a cynically wise grin. 1983 Listener 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas foxy foxy adj. (also foxey) ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [adjective] > discoloured due to decay foxed1847 foxy1880 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > like a stain > type of stain foxy1880 1880 W. Blades Enemies Bks. ii. 23 It grieves the heart to see ‘foxey’ stains common in his most superb works. 1935 C. A. Mitchell Documents & their Sci. Exam. 24 The so-called ‘foxy’ appearance of paper caused by the oxidising action of mould fungi or chemical processes of oxidation. 1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 149/2 Foxed, foxing or foxy, stains, specks or spots in paper, e.g. prints, books, mostly due to mould or paper-mildew. extracted from fox-markn. < adj.1528 as lemmas
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foxyadj.

Compounds

Derivatives

Draft additions 1993

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