vixen

Meaning

1. A female fox.
2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
3. (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
4. (colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.

Synonyms

shrew

virago

witch

hag

termagant

Xanthippe

fox

🦊

hellcat

harridan

harpy

siren

spitfire

yenta

female fox

bitch fox

she-fox

alarm

vulgar-mannered termagent

bitch

common scold

crosspatch

curmudgeon

meanie

meany

mermaid

🧜‍♀️

scold

scolder

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈvɪk.sən/

Etymology

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