vixen
nounEtymology
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).
Definitions
A female fox.
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.
- […] and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dripping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.
- (Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'
A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive
A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
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A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
- 2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.
The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for vixen. 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