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Vixen literally refers to a female fox, but it has two very distinctive extended meanings: “a shrew” and “a sexy woman.” How is it that the word took such semantically divergent paths? The “combative, bad-tempered woman” sense has a very long history in our language, going back as far as the 16th century and extending well into the 20th.
As slang, to call someone a vixen means that she's sexy and flirtatious, a label she may or may not like. Definitions of vixen. noun. a female fox. see more. noun. a malicious woman with a fierce temper. synonyms: harpy, hellcat. see more.
Meaning of vixen in English. vixen. noun [ C ] us / ˈvɪk.s ə n / uk / ˈvɪk.s ə n / Add to word list. a female fox. old-fashioned. an unpleasant woman. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Names for the male & female of animals. billy goat. bitch. boar. boomer. buck. bullock. cob. doe. drake. drone. ewe. gelding. mare. sire. sow. stag.
vixen. a female fox (= a wild animal of the dog family) Topics Animals c2. (old-fashioned, offensive) an offensive word for a woman who is thought to be frightening, especially one who is considered sexually attractive. Definition of vixen noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
noun. a female fox. an ill-tempered or quarrelsome woman. Synonyms: termagant, harpy, virago, scold, shrew. a woman considered to be sexually attractive. vixen. / ˈvɪksən / noun. a female fox. a quarrelsome or spiteful woman. Discover More. Derived Forms. ˈvixenishly, adverb. ˈvixenly, adverbadjective. ˈvixenishness, noun. ˈvixenish, adjective.
VIXEN definition: 1. a female fox 2. an unpleasant woman 3. a female fox. Learn more.
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman. Synonyms: see Thesaurus: shrew. ( colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive. Synonyms: see Thesaurus: promiscuous woman, Thesaurus: vamp. ( colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent. Coordinate terms [ edit]
