doxy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɒksi/

  Rhymes: -ɒksi

Etymology 1

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”).

Alternative forms

• doxie, doccy

Noun

doxy (plural doxies)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• paramour

See also

• arch doxy

Etymology 2

From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy etc.

Noun

doxy (plural doxies)

1. (colloquial) A defined opinion.