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foxey

foxey is the dated form of foxy.

Meaning of foxy

Adjective

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

  1. Having the qualities of a fox.
  2. Cunning, sly.
  3. (informal) 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 […]1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design
  6. Of wine, having an animal-like odor.

See all 10 meanings of foxy

Forms of foxey

comparativemore foxey
superlativemost foxey

Questions about foxey

What is foxey the dated form of?
Foxey is the dated form of foxy.

Words near foxey in the dictionary

  1. foxes guarding the henhouse
  2. foxes in henhouses
  3. foxes in the henhouse
  4. foxess
  5. foxesses
  6. foxey
  7. foxface
  8. foxfaces
  9. Foxfield
  10. foxfire
  11. foxfires

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foxey (page history and authors); foxy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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