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fixen

fixen is the obsolete form of vixen.

Meaning of vixen

Noun

vixen (plural vixens)

  1. A female fox.
    Synonyms:
    she-fox, foxess
  2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
    • 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.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
  3. (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
    Synonyms:
    NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella
  4. (colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
    • The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, Lollie Barr, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2018

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Forms of fixen

pluralfixens

Questions about fixen

What is fixen the obsolete form of?
Fixen is the obsolete form of vixen.

Words near fixen in the dictionary

  1. fixed-wing
  2. fixedly
  3. fixedness
  4. fixednesses
  5. fixedst
  6. fixen
  7. fixens
  8. fixer
  9. fixer-up
  10. fixer-upper
  11. fixer-uppers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fixen (page history and authors); vixen (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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