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Foxy vs Foxly - What's the difference?

foxy | foxly |

As adjectives the difference between foxy and foxly

is that foxy is having the qualities of a fox while foxly is like, resembling, or characteristic of a fox; vulpine.

foxy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • having the qualities of a fox
  • attractive, sexy
  • (of a person) red-haired.
  • (of wine) Having an animal-like odour

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    foxly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like, resembling, or characteristic of a fox; vulpine.
  • *1917 , Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix :
    • His foxly object was attained. The attention of the hunters was diverted.
  • *1968 , Hugh Latimer, Allan Griffith Chester, Selected Sermons of Hugh Latimer :
    • But the children of this world have worldly policy, foxly craft, lionlike cruelty, power to do hurt more than either aspis or basiliscus, engendering and doing all things fraudulently, [...]
  • *2008 , Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History :
    • Howe and the army settled into New York where the population was friendly, including a huge contingent of prostitutes whom both Americans and British described as a terrifying lot: “bitch foxly jades, hogs, strums.”
    (Webster 1913)