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doxie

doxie is the alternative form of doxy.

Meaning of doxy

Noun (1)

doxy (plural doxies)

  1. (archaic, Thieves' Cant) A sweetheart, a prostitute, a mistress or kept woman.
    • He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing...1907, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Needles and pins, page 82

Noun (2)

doxy (plural doxies)

  1. (colloquial) A defined opinion.
    • Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.1759, William Warburton, letter to Lord Sandwich

Noun (3)

doxy (plural doxies)

  1. (informal) A dachshund.

Noun (4)

doxy (plural doxies)

  1. An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.
    • "Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you."
      "No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies"2010 July 15, Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 6

Forms of doxie

pluraldoxies

Questions about doxie

What is doxie the alternative form of?
Doxie is the alternative form of doxy.

Words near doxie in the dictionary

  1. Doxey
  2. Doxeys
  3. Doxford Park
  4. doxhund
  5. doxibetasol
  6. doxie
  7. doxies
  8. doxifluridine
  9. doxin
  10. doxing
  11. doxofylline

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doxie (page history and authors); doxy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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