foxy
/ˈfɑksi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a person, especially a woman, having reddish-brown hair.
adj
Using too much of the reddish-brown colors.
adj
Of wine, having an animal-like odor.
adj
With a worldview synthesizing many different ideas.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical.""
Etymology
From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɑksi/
- British English: /ˈfɒksi/
Usage
- Slang
- Uncountable
- Informal
- British usage