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/vˈɪksɪn/ Listen

noun

Vixen n.

A female fox. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

A cross, ill-tempered person; formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. "She was a vixen when she went to school."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vixen" Quotes from Famous Books

... barring accidents, the barque was ours; she could escape us neither to leeward nor to windward. Instead, therefore, of continuing to jam the schooner as close into the wind's eye as she would sail, with the object of weathering out on the barque, we pointed the little vixen's jib-boom fair and square at the chase, checked the sheets and braces a few inches fore and aft, and put her along for ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... know," Ben replied, regaining somewhat his former composure. "Jean has been stuffing you with lies. She's a little vixen, and wants to get ...

— The Unknown Wrestler • H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

... and gave it mamma; she had forgotten all about it. And he had taken his name off the college books and left the university for ever. The poor, gentle tears of mortification ran down his mother's cheeks, and I hung round her neck, and scolded him like a vixen—as I am. We might have spared tears and fury both, for he is neither to be melted nor irritated by poor little us. He kissed us and coaxed us like a superior being, and set to work in his quiet, sober, ponderous way, and proved us a couple of fools to our entire satisfaction, and that without ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... he says, and turns in the lane To the house just left, whence a vixen voice Comes out with the firelight through the pane, And he sees within that the girl of his choice Stands rating her mother with eyes aglare For something said while ...

— Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with - Miscellaneous Pieces • Thomas Hardy

... not have had it other than it was; and I am sure, that now this very color of her hair, which would be a blemish in any one else, must only add to the charm of Mademoiselle Adrienne's face. She must have such a sweet vixen look!" ...

— The Wandering Jew, Complete • Eugene Sue

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