different between chary vs foxy

English

Etymology

From Middle English chari, charre, charri, chary, Early Middle English cearig, chari? (“concerned with, diligent; sad, sorrowful; of a person: cherished, loved”), from Old English ?eari? (“careful; pensive; chary, wary; anxious, sad, sorrowful; dire, grievous”), from Proto-West Germanic *karag (“anxious; sad”), from Proto-Germanic *kar? + *-gaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?r- (“exclamation; voice”) + *-kos (suffix forming adjectives with the meaning ‘pertaining to; typical of’)); analysable as care +? -y.

The English word is cognate with Danish karrig (“miserly, stingy”), Dutch karig (“austere, scant, sparing”), Norwegian karrig (“barren; meagre; poor”), Old High German charag, karag (“sparing”) (modern German karg (“barren; meagre, poor”)), Old Saxon carag, karag, Swedish karg (“austere; barren; hungry; needy, poor”). See further at care.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????i/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry distinction) IPA^(key): /?t????i/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?t???i/
• Rhymes: -???i
• Homophone: cherry (in accents with the Mary-marry-merry merger)
• Hyphenation: cha?ry

Adjective

chary (comparative charier, superlative chariest)

1. Careful, cautious, shy, wary.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cautious

   Antonyms: unchary; see also Thesaurus:careless
2. Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious.

   Antonym: unchary
3. Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing.

   Antonym: unchary
4. (obsolete) Cared for, regarded as precious; cherished.

   Antonym: unchary

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

chary (comparative more chary, superlative most chary)

1. Synonym of charily: carefully, cautiously, warily.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cautiously

   Antonyms: carelessly, incautiously, uncarefully, uncautiously, unwarily

References

Anagrams

• -archy, archy

English

Etymology

From fox +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?ksi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?ksi/
• Rhymes: -?ksi
• Hyphenation: fox?y

Adjective

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

1. Having the qualities of a fox.
2. Cunning, sly.
3. Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
4. (of a person, especially a woman) Reddish-brown haired.
5. (art) Using too much of the reddish-brown colours.
   • 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:

     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 […]

   • 1870, Frederick Peter Seguier, A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters:

     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. (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:sexy

Translations