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doxy

noun
/ˈdɒksi/UK

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).

  1. derived from *dokko✻ — “something round”
  2. derived from docke — “a doll”
  3. borrowed from *doketje✻

Definitions

  1. A sweetheart

    A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.

    • Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?

  2. A defined opinion.

    • Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

  3. Clipping of doxycycline.

    • I know one patient who couldn't take the tabs but could tolerate liquid doxy.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A dachshund.

    2. An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.

      • "Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you." "No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies"
      • The doxies were everywhere. So he just kept swinging, feeling a shudder through his arm each time the racquet made contact with a scaly body. Despite his best efforts, two or three of the nasty, screeching things got close.
      • "And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doxy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA