doxy
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Etymology 1 [edit]
Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of docke (“a doll”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Eastern Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).
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Noun [edit]
doxy (plural doxies)
- (archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- 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?
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:
- 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.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
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Etymology 2 [edit]
From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy etc.
Noun [edit]
doxy (plural doxies)
- (colloquial) A defined opinion.