In a manner resembling or characteristic of a fox; in a sly, cunning, or crafty way.
Formed from 'fox' or 'foxish' combined with the adverbial suffix '-ly' (meaning 'in the manner of'). This suffix transforms adjectives and nouns into adverbs describing how something is done.
Adding '-ly' to animal-based adjectives gives us a shorthand for entire personality types—'foxly' packs all of a fox's sneakiness into one word, which is why old literature loves these constructions for character descriptions.
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