vixen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪk.sən/
rhymes: -ɪksən
rhymes: -ɪksɪn
Forms: form: vixens
form: fixen
form: vixon
Etymology: Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxe, *fyxen, 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).
Senses: synonyms: she-fox
foxess
glosses: A female fox.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54:
text: (Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'
ref: 2002 June 2, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock:
synonyms: word: battle axe
word: bitch
word: brim
word: brimstone
word: cat
word: crow
word: dragon
word: faggot
word: fishwife
word: harpy
word: harridan
word: hellcat
word: jade
word: nag
word: nudnik
word: scold
word: she-devil
word: shrew
word: termagant
word: virago
word: vixen
word: witch
glosses: A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
synonyms: word: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise.
word: 304
word: alley cat
word: alleycat
word: amorette
word: amoret
word: amorosa
word: article
word: Athanasian wench
word: blowsabella
word: bop
word: chippy
word: cocotte
word: cockslut
word: cockwhore
word: crumpet
word: cum dumpster
word: cum guzzler
word: cumhole
word: cumslut
word: cumwhore
word: Cyprian
word: demimondaine
word: doxy
word: drab
word: eager beaver
word: Essex girl
word: flirt-gill
word: floogy
word: floosie
word: floosy
word: floozie
word: floozy
word: fornicator
word: fornicatour
word: fornicatress
word: fornicatrix
word: fuckstress
word: Fulham virgin
word: geebag
word: giglot
word: gillian
word: gill
word: good-time girl
word: grim
word: grisette
word: harlot
word: ho bag
word: ho-bag
word: hoe bag
word: hoe-bag
word: hoe
word: hoochie mama
word: hoochie
word: hood rat
word: ho
word: hussy
word: jade
word: jay
word: jillflirt
word: lady of light virtue
word: LBFM
word: light-o'-love
word: light-of-love
word: lightskirt
word: little brown fucking machine
word: loose woman
word: lorette
word: mab
word: manizer
word: minx
word: moll
word: mort wap-apace
word: nymphomaniac
word: painted Jezebel
word: puta
word: puzzel
word: quean
word: Quicumque vult
word: quiff
word: rig
word: scag
word: scrubber
word: skank
word: skettle
word: sket
word: skit
word: slag
word: slapper
word: slattern
word: sloven
word: slutbag
word: slut
word: stale
word: streel
word: strumpet
word: sweet cheeks
word: tartlet
word: tart
word: thotty
word: thot
word: town bicycle
word: town bike
word: tramp
word: treddle
word: trollop
word: trull
word: village bicycle
word: village bike
word: wagon
word: waistcoateer
word: wanton
word: wench
word: whore
word: enchantress
word: femme fatale
word: man-eater
word: mantrap
word: seductress
word: she-wolf
word: siren
word: temptress
word: vamp
word: vixen
word: wolfess
glosses: A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
examples: 2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding
The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.
glosses: A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
Coordinate terms: sense: female fox
word: dog-fox
sense: female fox
word: reynard
sense: female fox
word: tod
Derived terms: silver vixen
video vixen
Related terms: bull
cuckold
cuckquean
stag