Vixen
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪksən
Origin
From Old English fixen ("of a fox"), fyxen. Voiced v- is from Southern dialect. Compare German Füchsin. See also fox.
Full definition of vixen
Noun
vixen
(plural vixens)- A female fox.
- A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- 1859:, George Eliot. Adam Bede: page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:. . . and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a contiunal dropping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.
- (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman.
Synonyms
- (female fox) female fox
- (malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman) bitch, virago, she-devil, hellcat
- (racy or salacious woman) fox, sex kitten, nymphomaniac, vamp
Hypernyms
- (female fox) fox