doxy
UK/ˈdɒksi/
doxy noun: a sweetheart, a prostitute, a mistress or kept woman. Also the clipping of doxycycline.
Noun (1)
doxy (plural doxies)
- 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
- 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?1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
Noun (2)
doxy (plural doxies)
- 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)
- A dachshund.
Noun (4)
doxy (plural doxies)
- 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 - The doxies were everywhere. So he just kept swinging, feeling a shudder through his arm each time the racquet made contact with a scaly body. Despite his best efforts, two or three of the nasty, screeching things got close.2015 March 10, C.T. Adams, The Exile: Book One of the Fae, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 93
- "Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you."
Also used as
doxy is also the clipping of doxycycline.
Examples of doxy in a sentence
- "And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."2021 May 19, Sarah Biglow, Molly Zenk, Captivity The Complete Series: A Dystopian Shifter Fantasy Collection, Biglow & Zenk Fantasy...
- A doxy messenger can outfly a pixie by five klicks in optimal conditions.2023 December 12, Claire Wilkins, Courting the Prince of Moonlit Shadows, eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc., →ISBN:
Forms of doxy
| plural | doxies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | doxie |
Origin of doxy
Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).
From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.
Clipping. From deoxy-.
Words formed from doxy
Words that rhyme with doxy
Questions about doxy
- What does doxy mean?
- Doxy means a sweetheart, a prostitute, a mistress or kept woman.
- How do you use doxy in a sentence?
- "And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."
- What part of speech is doxy?
- Doxy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce doxy?
- Doxy is pronounced /ˈdɒksi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doxy?
- The plural of doxy is doxies.
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