Difference between Foxy and Slick

What is the difference between Foxy and Slick?

Foxy as an adjective is having the qualities of a fox while Slick as an adjective is slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.

Foxy

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having the qualities of a fox attractive, sexy (of a person) red-haired.

Slick

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A covering of liquid, particularly oil.A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.A helicopter.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Slippery due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.Appearing expensive or sophisticated.Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.Clever, making an apparently hard task easy; often used sarcastically.Extraordinarily great or special.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make slick

Example sentence: The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.

We hope you now know whether to use Foxy or Slick in your sentence.

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