different between knowing vs foxy
knowing
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?no???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n????/
- Rhymes: -????
Adjective
knowing (comparative more knowing, superlative most knowing)
- Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
- The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
- Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
- Suggestive of private knowledge.
- Deliberate
Translations
Verb
knowing
- present participle of know
Derived terms
- knowingly
Noun
knowing (plural knowings)
- The act or condition of having knowledge.
- 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)
- Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
- 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)
knowing From the web:
- what knowing god means
- what's knowing mean
- what's knowing possession
- what's knowing smile
- what's knowing in spanish
- what knowing tagalog
- knowing what you want
- knowing what a rainbow looks like
foxy
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)
- Having the qualities of a fox.
- Cunning, sly.
- Attractive, sexy (of a woman).
- (of a person, especially a woman) Reddish-brown haired.
- (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.
- 1844, Benjamin Robert Haydon, Lectures on Painting and Design:
- (of wine) Having an animal-like odour.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:sexy
Translations
foxy From the web:
- what foxy means
- what foxy looks like
- what foxes eat
- what foxes eat in minecraft
- what foxes are endangered
- what foxes look like
- what foxes live in the desert
- what foxes do
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- knowing vs foxy
- collected vs easygoing
- authorise vs validate
- problematical vs disputable
- revelry vs wingding
- undue vs unbridled
- rap vs goad
- blend vs pooling
- unmerciful vs hardened
- trace vs hint
- ceremonial vs custom
- sleepy vs slow
- ashen vs sickly
- block vs disallow
- zestful vs energetic
- fence vs cover
- propitious vs useful
- degree vs estate
- ineffective vs profitless
- strait vs crisis