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vixen
/ˈvɪk.sən/
noun 4name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
done, little, wild, wilder
VERB + VIXEN
look
VIXEN + NOUN
', cubs, duck, neon, wife
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
1
A female fox.
2
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 nails, acrid and selfish.
3
A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
4
A 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.
name
1
The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.
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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.
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[…] 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
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(Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'
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The abbot gave rice to the vixen.
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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
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Ali Wilder, you little vixen.
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