foxy
英 ['fɒksɪ]
美 ['fɑksi]
英語の語源
- foxy (adj.)
- 1520s, "crafty, cunning," as foxes are, from fox (n.) + -y (2). Middle English had foxish in this sense (late 14c.). Of colors, stains, tints, etc. from 18c. Meaning "attractive" (of a woman) is from 1895, American English slang. Related: Foxiness.
The compiler of the "Brut" chronicle, complaining of English fashions in the time of Edward III, notes that te wemmen ... were so strete cloted tat tey lete hange fox tailes sawyd benete with-infort hire clotis forto hele and heyde hire ars. That is, the women's clothing was so tight/scanty "that they let hang fox tails sewn inside their clothes at the back to ... hide their arses," the which behavior, he writes, perauenture afterward brougte forte & encausid many mys-happis & mischeuys in te reaume of Engelond.
例文
- 1. He had wary， foxy eyes.
- 彼の目は機敏で狡猾だ。
- 2.He was a foxy old trader.
- 彼は悪徳商人だ。
- 3.The FOXY Sensor system will change the way you work.
- FOXY センサシステムはあなたの働き方を変えます。
- 4.Our FOXY probes range in thickness from sub-microns to a few microns.
- FOXY 検出厚さサブミクロンから数ミクロン.
- 5.What technical references are available in support of the FOXY Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors？
- ファイバ酸素センサをサポートする技術的リファレンス FOXY
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