Definitions
Clever, sly, or attractive in a sharp way.
Word origin
From fox + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian fuksich (“foxy”), West Frisian foksich (“foxy”), Dutch vossig (“foxy”), German Low German vossig (“foxy”), German fuchsig (“foxy”).
Used in a sentence
“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 […]”
“For half a century, psychotherapy was dominated by hedgehoggy men who considered their style "normal," and women's foxy, emotional, flexible style "hysterical."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Cunningly clever”4 letters
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