doxy

noun

1. (archaic)A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.

   “He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched, and pilfered when and where they could, a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror.”

   “Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?”

   “So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.”

2. (colloquial)A defined opinion.

   “Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.”

3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable)Clipping of doxycycline.

   “I know one patient who couldn't take the tabs but could tolerate liquid doxy.”

4. (informal)A dachshund.
5. An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.

   “"Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you." "No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies"”

   “The doxies were everywhere. So he just kept swinging, feeling a shudder through his arm each time the racquet made contact with a scaly body. Despite his best efforts, two or three of the nasty, screeching things got close.”

   “"And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."”

   “Trapped like this, the options are extremely pitiful and the damned doxies bite the way scorpions sting.”

   “A doxy messenger can outfly a pixie by five klicks in optimal conditions. They can span 40 klicks in a little over five hours. Though not particularly good in combat, doxies can turn invisible, kill with a kiss, and cause hallucinations if touched.”