English Explanatory Dictionary

vixen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A female fox.
  2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
  3. A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
  4. A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
name
  1. The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.

Pronunciation

/ˈvɪk.sən/ en-us-vixen.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Vixen.wav

Word forms

vixen vixens fixen vixon

Etymology

Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, 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).

Synonyms

she-fox foxess battle axe bitch brim brimstone cat crow dragon faggot fishwife harpy harridan hellcat jade nag nudnik scold she-devil shrew termagant virago vixen witch NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise. 304 alley cat alleycat amorette amoret amorosa article Athanasian wench blowsabella bop chippy cocotte cockslut cockwhore crumpet cum dumpster cum guzzler cumhole cumslut cumwhore Cyprian demimondaine doxy drab eager beaver Essex girl flirt-gill floogy floosie floosy floozie floozy fornicator fornicatour fornicatress

Related words

bull cuckold cuckquean stag

Derived words

silver vixen video vixen
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on V Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary