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Vixen
Definitions
- 1 The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
- 1 A female fox.
- 2 a female fox wordnet
- 3 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."
- 4 a malicious woman with a fierce temper wordnet
- 5 A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman. colloquial
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- 6 A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent. colloquial
"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."
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).
First attested in the 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas”. From vixen.
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