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vixenOld English *fyxen (implied in adjective fyxan), fem. of fox (see fox (n.) and cognate with Middle High German vühsinne, German füchsin). Solitary English survival of the Germanic feminine suffix -en, [..]
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vixena female fox
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vixen(n) a malicious woman with a fierce temper(n) a female fox
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vixenA female fox. Metaphorically, a woman of villainous and ungovernable temper. (Anglo-Saxon, fixen.)
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vixen
A female fox.
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
* '''1859:''', . ''Adam Bede'': page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:
*: . . . and if Solomon was as wise as he is [..]
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