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Webster 1913 Edition
Vixen
1.
A female fox.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2.
A cross, ill-tempered person; – formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
Barrow.
She was a
vixen
when she went to school. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Vixen
VIX'EN
,Noun.
A froward, turbulent, quarrelsome woman.
Definition 2024
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See also: Vixen
English
Alternative forms
- fixen (obsolete)
- vixon (obsolete)
Noun
vixen (plural vixens)
- A female fox.
- A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- 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.
- 1859:, George Eliot. Adam Bede: page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
- (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman.
Synonyms
- (female fox): female fox
- (malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman): bitch, virago, she-devil, hellcat
- (racy or salacious woman): fox, sex kitten, nymphomaniac, vamp
Hypernyms
- (female fox): fox
Translations
female fox
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temperamental woman
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sexy woman — see fox