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doxies

doxies is the plural of doxy.

doxies is the plural of doxie.

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

Phrases with doxies

Questions about doxies

What is doxies the plural of?
Doxies is the plural of doxy.

Words near doxies in the dictionary

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

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