vixen
Meaning
- A female fox.
- A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
- (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
- (colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
Synonyms
Translations
renarde
zorra
Füchsin
θηλυκή αλεπού
raposa
guineu
wijfjesvosFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪk.sən/
Etymology
In summary
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxe, *fyxen, 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).
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