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vixen

/ˈvɪksɪn/

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What does vixen mean?

noun

  1. A female fox.
  2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
  3. A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.

proper noun

  1. The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈvɪksɪn/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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“If he’d had a young vixen of a sister to fight with it would have been the saving of him.”
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret GardenProject Gutenberg ebook #113
A haze lay low upon the farthest sky-line, out of which jutted the fantastic shapes of Belliver and Vixen Tor.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the BaskervillesProject Gutenberg ebook #3070
More book examples (3)
Then he stopped suddenly, and I heard a little whimper in the dark, and knew that Vixen had found me at last.
Rudyard KiplingThe Jungle BookProject Gutenberg ebook #236
But old Vixen was up in natural history--she knew squirrel nature and took the case in hand when the proper time came.
Ernest Thompson SetonWild Animals I Have KnownProject Gutenberg ebook #3031
One day at a party a vixen of a girl threw herself boldly in his arms and tried to push him into a chair.
Abraham MyersonThe Foundations of PersonalityProject Gutenberg ebook #1575