vixen

  • 11vixen — [vik′sən] n. [ME (southern dial.) fixen < OE fyxe, she fox (or fyxen, adj., of a fox) < fox,FOX] 1. a female fox 2. an ill tempered, shrewish, or malicious woman vixenish adj. vixenishly adv …

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  • 12Vixen 03 — Infobox Book | name = Vixen 03 image caption = 1st Edition Hardcover author = Clive Cussler cover artist = Lou Feck country = United States language = English series = Dirk Pitt Novels genre = Adventure; Techno thriller publisher = Viking Press… …

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  • 13Vixen (RV) — {| border=0 align=right Infobox Automobile boxcolor = darkgreen name = Vixen manufacturer = Vixen Motor Company production = 1986 1989 class = A platform = body style = predecessor = successor = aka = related = similar = designer = Bill… …

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  • 14Vixen! — Infobox Film name = Vixen! caption = Theatrical poster to Vixen! (1968) director = Russ Meyer producer = Russ Meyer writer = Russ Meyer Anthony James Ryan starring = Erica Gavin music = cinematography = editing = Russ Meyer distributor = Eve… …

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  • 15vixen —    Female foxes are evidently very badtempered and to call a woman a vixen is to say that she is ‘a nasty quean, a slut, a scold’, as Burton expressed it in The Anatomy of Melancholy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare has Helena say of her …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 16Vixen — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. En anglais, vixen signifie « renarde » mais aussi, de manière figurée, une femme fatale au caractère bien trempé. Ce mot peut faire référence… …

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  • 17vixen — vix|en [ˈvıksən] n [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: fixen vixen (15 18 centuries), from Old English fyxe vixen , from fox] 1.) a female ↑fox 2.) literary an offensive word for a woman who is bad tempered or who fights …

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  • 18vixen — [15] The only Old English word on record for a ‘female fox’ is fyxe. Fixene first appears in the late Middle English period. It was formed using the suffix en, denoting ‘female’. This was once quite common – Old English had biren ‘female bear’,… …

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  • 19vixen — UK [ˈvɪks(ə)n] / US [ˈvɪksən] noun [countable] Word forms vixen : singular vixen plural vixens a female fox I, 1) Derived word: vixenish adjective …

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  • 20vixen — [15] The only Old English word on record for a ‘female fox’ is fyxe. Fixene first appears in the late Middle English period. It was formed using the suffix en, denoting ‘female’. This was once quite common – Old English had biren ‘female bear’,… …

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