provocatrix

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provocatrix

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Learned borrowing from Late Latin prōvocātrīx. By surface analysis, provocator + -trix.

noun provocatrices

A female provocator. Rounding out the primary characters is professional provocatrix Sarah Silverman, who voices Vanellope von Schweetz[…].
Similar: provocateuse, provocatrice

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@misc{provocatrix_2026,
  title = {provocatrix},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/provocatrix},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}