Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A female fox.
- noun A woman regarded as quarrelsome or ill-tempered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A she-fox.
- noun Hence A turbulent, quarrelsome woman; a scold; a termagant: formerly used occasionally of a man.
- Vixenish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A female fox.
- noun A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female fox . - noun A
malicious ,quarrelsome ortemperamental woman. - noun colloquial A
racy orsalacious woman.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a malicious woman with a fierce temper
- noun a female fox
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There's nothing that says exhausted, cranky and nauseous like vixen, is there?
When Bad Things Happen to Bad Writers Roger Sutton 2006
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When a vixen is voted off, Rose will brandish a gun and a rose, scream, “You’re Gonna Diiiiiie!” and then shoot her.
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“I am a vixen, a female fox,” she had replied with a quiver of her nostrils, and Claudia had immediately recognized that a vixen was a very grand and glorious thing to be.
The Night Of the Solstice L.J. SMITH 2010
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Having spent some time recently as a cancer victim, I can say right here and right now that the word vixen was never in my vocabulary.
When Bad Things Happen to Bad Writers Roger Sutton 2006
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In the book a speaker writes about her, that "Comet of stillness, princess of what is over/high note held without trembling without voice without sound/aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets" The vixen is a sentient creature endowed with both a totally modern mind as well as deep old foresty knowledge, and so is the consciousness of the poems themselves.
Book Patrol 2010
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In the book a speaker writes about her, that "Comet of stillness, princess of what is over/high note held without trembling without voice without sound/aura of complete darkness keeper of the kept secrets" The vixen is a sentient creature endowed with both a totally modern mind as well as deep old foresty knowledge, and so is the consciousness of the poems themselves.
Book Patrol 2010
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The female fox is called a vixen, but if a human is called a vixen, the connotation is an attractive but cunning woman!
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The female, called a vixen, prepares a den before she bears the young.
Knox 2009
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In particular, one of the alleged spies, 28-year-old Anna Chapman, is getting a lot of attention because of her "vixen" looks and lingerie shots on Facebook.
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(Don't forget, promo code "vixen" gets you 5\% off, which is a wicked good deal!)
andrew.simone commented on the word vixen
I've known a few.
January 10, 2007
mollusque commented on the word vixen
Interesting comment among the definitions from American Heritage.
December 24, 2009