vixen
See also: Vixen
EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxen, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini; synchronically analyzable as fox + -en. Voiced v- is from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vixen (plural vixens)
- A female fox.
- A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292:
- 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.
- 1859:, George Eliot. Adam Bede: page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
- […] 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.
- (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
- (colloquial) 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.
- 2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
SynonymsEdit
- (malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman): See Thesaurus:shrew
- (racy or salacious woman): See Thesaurus:promiscuous woman or Thesaurus:vamp
HypernymsEdit
- (female fox): fox
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TranslationsEdit
female fox
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temperamental woman
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attractive woman — see fox