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foxy

nounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɒksi//
  • United States//ˈfɑksi//

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

noun

  1. 1

    slangThe recreational drug 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT).

Etymology

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Having the qualities of a fox.

  2. 2

    Cunning, sly.

  3. 3

    informalAttractive, sexy (of a woman).

  4. 4

    Of a person, especially a woman, having reddish-brown hair.

  5. 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. 6

    Of wine, having an animal-like odor.

  7. 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."

Forms

comparative
foxier
superlative
foxiest
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