/ˈvɪk.sən/
OriginAlteration 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).
- A female fox.
- 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.”
“[…] and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dripping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long”
“(Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'”
- colloquialA racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
- colloquialA wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
“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.”
- The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
Formsvixens(plural) · fixen(alternative, obsolete) · vixon(alternative, obsolete)