different between intriguing vs foxy

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?i????/

Adjective

intriguing (comparative more intriguing, superlative most intriguing)

1. Causing a desire to know more; mysterious.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mysterious

2. (archaic) Having clandestine or illicit intercourse.
   • 1839, Michael Ryan, Prostitution in London (page 83)

     […] few respectable women will now sit at a window, looking into the public street, or gaze at passengers in any large town or city; and no one does so at present, unless an innocent inexperienced, husband-hunting, flirtish, or intriguing person.

Synonyms

• fascinating, interesting, attractive

Translations

Verb

intriguing

1. present participle of intrigue

Noun

intriguing (plural intriguings)

1. (dated) An intrigue.
   • 1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck

     In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.

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