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vixen
noun 
  1. A female fox.
  2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
    • 1859:, w:George Eliot. Adam Bede: page 54. Kí¶ln: Kí¶nemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
    • : . . . and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a contiunal dropping on a very rainy day, he had not a in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.
      1. (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: wijfjesvos
  • French: renarde
  • German: Fí¼chsin
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: zorra
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, temperamental woman)
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, sexy woman)
    See fox
    (trans-mid)
    (trans-bottom)
Etymology: (term, fixen, , of a fox). Voiced v- is from Southern dialect

     
 
  

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