vixen
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 5
Definition of vixen
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A female fox.
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noun
- 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.”
“[…] 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.”
“(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; any attractive woman.
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(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.”
name
- The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
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Etymology
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes…
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Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, 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).
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