vixen
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See also: Vixen
Alternative forms
Etymology
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxe, 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).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
vixen (plural vixens)
- A female fox.
- A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shrew
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- 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, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54:
- […] 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.
- 2002 June 2, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock:
- (Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'
- (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:vamp
- (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
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
female fox
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temperamental woman
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attractive woman — see fox
See also
References
- “fixen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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