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Doxy
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- 1 A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress. archaic
"He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched, and pilfered when and where they could, a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror."
- 2 A defined opinion. colloquial
"Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy."
- 3 Clipping of doxycycline. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
"I know one patient who couldn't take the tabs but could tolerate liquid doxy."
- 4 A dachshund. informal
- 5 An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.
""Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you." "No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies""
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- 6 a woman who cohabits with an important man wordnet
Etymology
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”).
From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.
Clipping. From deoxy-.
Clipping of dachshund + -y.
Coined by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series as the name of a species of biting fairy, possibly originally from Etymology 1 or from Etymology 3 (doxycycline is used to treat various diseases caused by insect bites). Likely influenced by pixie.
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