vixen
See also: Vixen
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Alteration of fixen (“female fox”), from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxen (“female fox”), from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinjō (“female fox”). Voiced v- is from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Compare German Füchsin (“female fox”). See also fox.
Pronunciation
Noun
vixen (plural vixens)
- A female fox.
- A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1859:, George Eliot. Adam Bede: page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
- […] 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.
- (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman.
- 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.
- 2018 ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
Synonyms
- (female fox): female fox
- (malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman): See Thesaurus:shrew
- (racy or salacious woman): See Thesaurus:promiscuous woman or Thesaurus:vamp
Hypernyms
- (female fox): fox
Related terms
Translations
female fox
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temperamental woman
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attractive woman — see fox
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