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doxy

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɒksi/Part of speech nounSorted doxyStarts with DEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a woman who cohabits with an important man

Word origin

Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).

Used in a sentence

  • Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
  • So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.
  • Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

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