vixen
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈvɪk.sən/
name
Etymology: First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From vixen.
- The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
noun
Etymology: 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).
- A female fox.
- 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.”
“[…] 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.”
- A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
- A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
“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.”