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vixen en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈvɪk.sən/

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. A female fox.
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:
   • (Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!' 2002 June 2, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock:
   • […] 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:
3. (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
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:

Forms

Coordinates

reynard (female fox) · tod (female fox) · dog-fox (female fox)

Deriveds

vixenry · video vixen · vixenlike · vixenly · silver vixen · supervixen · vixenhood · vixenish · vixeny · fennec vixen

Relateds

bull · stag · cuckquean · cuckold

Synonyms

bop · skettle · cumhole · siren · fishwife · enchantress · streel · gillian · painted Jezebel · bitch · femme fatale · hoochie · floosie · slattern · town bike · brimstone · termagant · chippy · good-time girl · Essex girl · scrubber · LBFM · cocotte · jillflirt · cockwhore · strumpet · hood rat · battle axe · mab · fornicator · slutbag · doxy · fornicatrix · cumslut · jade · moll · mort wap-apace · puta · amorette · cum guzzler · village bicycle · Athanasian wench · Quicumque vult · town bicycle · floozie · cum dumpster · geebag · hussy · slapper · lady of light virtue · ho bag · gill · witch · foxess · slag · seductress · temptress · lorette · faggot · trollop · light-o'-love · cockatrice · tart · virago · 304 · vamp · quiff · floozy · crumpet · harpy · whore · cumwhore · waistcoateer · hoe bag · hoe · eager beaver · grisette · stale · cockslut · dragon · wagon · she-wolf · hoe-bag · tramp · alley cat · blowsabella · thot · wolfess · lightskirt · thotty · quean · fuckstress · article · manizer · brim · wench · minx · sket · fornicatour · mantrap · wanton · man-eater · treddle · NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise. · amoret · jade · scag · loose woman · harridan · hellcat · cat · slut · Cyprian · Fulham virgin · nudnik · floosy · sloven · floogy · giglot · puzzel · nag · hoochie mama · scold · demimondaine · skit · cockatrice · she-devil · tartlet · nymphomaniac · vixen · grim · jay · sweet cheeks · harlot · fornicatress · trull · little brown fucking machine · rig · ho-bag · she-fox · crow · amorosa · village bike · alleycat · drab · ho · flirt-gill · vixen · shrew · light-of-love · skank

Translations (106)

fo revtík (female fox) · cs čůza (temperamental woman) · ms musang (female fox) · ru сте́рва (temperamental woman) · mr कोल्हीण (female fox) · ms musang betina (female fox) · sv räv (female fox) · gl penacha (temperamental woman) · ka მელია (female fox) · cy llwynoges (female fox) · ro vulpoaică (female fox) · br louskenn (temperamental woman) · nrn fúa (female fox) · hu fúria (temperamental woman) · pl jędza (temperamental woman) · uk лисиця (female fox) · sv honräv (female fox) · mk лисица (female fox) · hu kurva (temperamental woman) · ga sionnach baineann (female fox) · af jakkalswyfie (female fox) · ms rubah (female fox) · de Xanthippe (temperamental woman) · gl morlana (temperamental woman) · ja すべた (temperamental woman) · sh лѝсица (female fox) · bg же́нска лиси́ца (female fox) · de Drachen (temperamental woman) · gl raposa (female fox) · ro vulpiță (female fox) · fr garce (temperamental woman) · de Fähe (female fox) · ar ثَعْلَبَة (female fox) · ms rubah betina (female fox) · it troia (temperamental woman) · de Zicke (temperamental woman) · pa ਲੂੰਬੜੀ (female fox) · pl suka (temperamental woman) · non fóa (female fox) · non fúa (female fox) · sv rävinna (female fox) · bg свадли́ва жена́ (temperamental woman) · pl lisica (female fox) · pl liszka (female fox) · bg дра́ка (temperamental woman) · es vulpeja (female fox) · da hunræv (female fox) · ka მელა (female fox) · tr dişi tilki (female fox) · ru су́ка (temperamental woman) · gl viltroteira (temperamental woman) · es zorra (female fox) · nl wijfjesvos (female fox) · enm fixene (female fox) · cs semetrika (temperamental woman) · ru лиса́ (female fox) · ca guilla (female fox) · bg лиса́на (female fox) · br liboudenn (temperamental woman) · ja 牝狐 (female fox) · gd galla (temperamental woman) · hu hárpia (temperamental woman) · he שועלה (female fox) · nl moervos (female fox) · vo jirenar (female fox) · pl kurwa (temperamental woman) · it volpina (female fox) · es vulpécula (female fox) · gl pelexa (temperamental woman) · io foxino (female fox) · eo vulpino (female fox) · pt raposa (female fox) · bg лиси́ца (female fox) · pt megera (temperamental woman) · fr salope (temperamental woman) · ka ანჩხლი (temperamental woman) · fi naaraskettu (female fox) · is tæfa (female fox) · ru лиси́ца (female fox) · sk líška (female fox) · bg ли́са (female fox) · cs megera (temperamental woman) · sh lìsica (female fox) · de Schlampe (temperamental woman) · cs liška (female fox) · af wyfievos (female fox) · gl prea (temperamental woman) · sa लोमज़िक (female fox) · ka მეგერა (temperamental woman) · cmn 母狐狸 (female fox) · cy cadnöes (female fox) · ang fyxen (female fox) · hu szuka (female fox) · de Füchsin (female fox) · fr rosse (temperamental woman) · ca guineu femella (female fox) · cs xantipa (temperamental woman) · hu szuka (temperamental woman) · sv rävtik (female fox) · it stronza (temperamental woman) · it volpe (female fox) · fr renarde (female fox) · hy աղվեսուհի (female fox) · nl vossin (female fox) · gd sionnach-boireann (female fox) · fr chipie (temperamental woman)