vixen
/ˈvɪk.sən/
vixen noun: a female fox.
Noun
vixen (plural vixens)
- A female fox.
- 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
- […] 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, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54
- Synonyms:
- battle axe, bitch, brim, brimstone, cat, cockatrice, crow, dragon, faggot, fishwife
- 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
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Vixen
Vixen
- The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
vixen meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Punjabi
vixen in Tamil
- பெண் நரி, சண்டைக்காரி
vixen in Marathi
- female fox
- कोल्हीण kolhīṇ
vixen in Urdu
- بدمزاج, جھگڑالو, لڑاکا, لومڑی
vixen in Punjabi
- female fox
- ਲੂੰਬੜੀ lūmbṛī
More languagesFewer languages
- vixen in Sanskrit
- लोमज़िक lomazika
- vixen in Arabic
- ثَعْلَبَة ṯaʕlaba
- vixen in Malay
- rubah betina, musang betina, rubah, musang
Synonyms of vixen
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- harpy
- harridan
- hellcat
- jade
- nag
- nudnik
- scold
- she-devil
- shrew
- termagant
- virago
- witch
- NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise.
- 304
- alley cat
- alleycat
- bop
- chippy
- cocotte
- cockslut
- cockwhore
- crumpet
- cum dumpster
- cum guzzler
- cumhole
- cumslut
- cumwhore
- demimondaine
- eager beaver
- Essex girl
Forms of vixen
| plural | vixens |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | fixen |
| alternative form (obsolete) | vixon |
Origin of vixen
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, fixene, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).
First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From vixen.
Words formed from vixen
Words that rhyme with vixen
Questions about vixen
- What does vixen mean?
- Vixen means a female fox.
- What is vixen in Tamil?
- Vixen in Tamil is பெண் நரி, சண்டைக்காரி. See Vixen meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is vixen?
- Vixen can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce vixen?
- Vixen is pronounced /ˈvɪk.sən/.
- What is the plural of vixen?
- The plural of vixen is vixens.
Words near vixen in the dictionary
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