vixen
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vixen¹
- /ˈvɪk.sən/
Rhymes with -ɪksən, -ɪksɪn
Where it comes from
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, fixene, 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).
noun vixens · fixen · vixon
- A female fox.
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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.
Similar: battle axe, bitch, brim, brimstone, cat, cockatrice, crow, dragon, faggot, fishwife, harpy, harridan
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A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
Similar: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella, bop, chippy
- A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent. The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.
Vixen²
Where it comes from
First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From vixen.
proper noun
- The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
Translations
Every language
noun female fox
| Español | zorra, vulpécula, vulpeja |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 牝狐 megitsune |
| 中文 | 母狐狸 mǔhúli |
| Português | raposa |
| Français | renarde |
| Deutsch | Füchsin, Fähe |
| Italiano | volpina, volpe |
| Română | vulpiță, vulpoaică |
| Русский | лиси́ца lisíca, лиса́ lisá |
| العربية | ثَعْلَبَة ṯaʕlaba |
| עברית | שועלה šualá |
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title = {vixen},
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