Definitions
A female fox, or a sharply ill-tempered woman.
Word origin
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).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“(Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Female fox”5 letters
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