"foxy" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈfɑksi/ [General-American], /ˈfɒksi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foxy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: foxier [comparative], foxiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɒksi Etymology: From fox + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fox|y}} fox + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)
  1. Having the qualities of a fox. Translations (having the qualities of a fox): лисичи (lisiči) (Bulgarian), rókás (Hungarian), rókaszerű (Hungarian), sionnachúil (Irish), フォクシー (fokushī) (Japanese), lisi [masculine] (Polish), ли́сий (lísij) (Russian), zorruno (Spanish), rävaktig (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-adj-7-9dsMI3 Disambiguation of 'having the qualities of a fox': 80 2 0 7 2 7
  2. Cunning, sly. Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-adj-y4o~93mN Disambiguation of Hair: 6 17 14 20 7 17 19
  3. (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman). Tags: informal Categories (topical): Appearance, Hair Translations (attractive, sexy): seksikäs (Finnish), viettelevä (Finnish), sexy (German), scharf (German), geil (German), cicás (Hungarian), cica (Hungarian), csinos (Hungarian), csini (Hungarian), dögös (Hungarian), szexi (Hungarian), mealltach (Irish), téisiúil (Irish), сексапи́льный (sɛksapílʹnyj) (Russian), snygg (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-adj-UAdNIzIC Disambiguation of Appearance: 1 13 57 1 2 23 3 Disambiguation of Hair: 6 17 14 20 7 17 19 Disambiguation of 'attractive, sexy': 0 1 97 0 0 2
  4. (of a person, especially a woman) Having reddish-brown hair. Categories (topical): Hair
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-adj-Vjcksj8C Disambiguation of Hair: 6 17 14 20 7 17 19
  5. (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colours. Categories (topical): Art
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-adj-UofGk0fu Topics: art, arts
  6. (of wine) Having an animal-like odour. Categories (topical): Hair, Smell
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-adj-GLGWUhJQ Disambiguation of Hair: 6 17 14 20 7 17 19 Disambiguation of Smell: 3 7 27 3 4 53 3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: foxily, foxiness, foxy boxing Related terms: silver-foxy Translations ((of a person) red-haired): червеникав (červenikav) (Bulgarian), риж (riž) (Bulgarian), roux (French), répafejű (Hungarian), ры́жий (rýžij) (Russian), pelirrojo (Spanish), rödhårig (Swedish) Translations ((of wine)): прокиснал (prokisnal) (Bulgarian), foxé (French), проки́сший (prokísšij) (Russian)
Disambiguation of '(of a person) red-haired': 15 17 9 21 13 24 Disambiguation of '(of wine)': 0 0 0 0 0 0

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfɑksi/ [General-American], /ˈfɒksi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foxy.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɒksi Etymology: From fox + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fox|y}} fox + -y Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} foxy (uncountable)
  1. (slang) The recreational drug 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). Tags: slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Hair, Wine
    Sense id: en-foxy-en-noun-Nga5ri2G Disambiguation of Hair: 6 17 14 20 7 17 19 Disambiguation of Wine: 6 12 2 8 7 9 56 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 20 1 14 10 16 29 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 8 12 1 8 13 20 37 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 12 14 0 14 13 15 32

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design",
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    "Rhymes:English/ɒksi/2 syllables",
    "en:Appearance",
    "en:Hair",
    "en:Smell",
    "en:Wine"
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "-"
      },
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    }
  ],
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    "fox‧y"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The recreational drug 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "recreational drug",
          "recreational drug"
        ],
        [
          "5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine",
          "5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine"
        ],
        [
          "5-MeO-DMT",
          "5-MeO-DMT"
        ]
      ],
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        "(slang) The recreational drug 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɑksi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɒksi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒksi"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foxy.wav",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foxy"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms suffixed with -y",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒksi",
    "Rhymes:English/ɒksi/2 syllables",
    "en:Appearance",
    "en:Hair",
    "en:Smell",
    "en:Wine"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "foxily"
    },
    {
      "word": "foxiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "foxy boxing"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fox",
        "3": "y"
      },
      "expansion": "fox + -y",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From fox + -y.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "foxier",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "foxiest",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "fox‧y"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "silver-foxy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having the qualities of a fox."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fox",
          "fox"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Cunning, sly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Cunning",
          "cunning"
        ],
        [
          "sly",
          "sly"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Attractive, sexy (of a woman)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Attractive",
          "attractive"
        ],
        [
          "sexy",
          "sexy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having reddish-brown hair."
      ],
      "qualifier": "especially a woman",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person, especially a woman) Having reddish-brown hair."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Art"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design",
          "text": "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 […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Using too much of the reddish-brown colours."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "art",
          "art#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "reddish",
          "reddish"
        ],
        [
          "brown",
          "brown"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colours."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "art",
        "arts"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having an animal-like odour."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of wine) Having an animal-like odour."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of wine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɑksi/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɒksi/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒksi"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-foxy.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bc/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-foxy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-foxy.wav.mp3",
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "lisiči",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "лисичи"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "rókás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "rókaszerű"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "sionnachúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fokushī",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "フォクシー"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lisi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "lísij",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "ли́сий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "zorruno"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having the qualities of a fox",
      "word": "rävaktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "seksikäs"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "viettelevä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "sexy"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "scharf"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "geil"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "cicás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "cica"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "csinos"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "csini"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "dögös"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "szexi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "mealltach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "téisiúil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sɛksapílʹnyj",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "сексапи́льный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "attractive, sexy",
      "word": "snygg"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "červenikav",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "червеникав"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "riž",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "риж"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "roux"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "répafejű"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rýžij",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "ры́жий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "pelirrojo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "(of a person) red-haired",
      "word": "rödhårig"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prokisnal",
      "sense": "(of wine)",
      "word": "прокиснал"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "(of wine)",
      "word": "foxé"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prokísšij",
      "sense": "(of wine)",
      "word": "проки́сший"
    }
  ],
  "word": "foxy"
}

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