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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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"Vixen" Quotes from Famous Books

... he said. "These girls are fools to bait men of our age—" He broke off to seize Dorothy by the arm. "Give me that watch, you vixen!" ...

— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers

... eh?" he sneered. "You didn't get your rat-poison at the spring after all. The Yankees are foxes after all!" He laughed his loud, nasal, nickering laugh—"Foxes are foxes but men are men. Do you understand that, you damned vixen?" ...

— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

... forward, she snapped a shell at the men on the other side. The ridge was soon gained by the regiments, however, the enemy not remaining to contest it, and they were sheltered by it from the gunboat's fire. I wish I were sufficiently master of nautical phraseology to do justice to this little vixen's style of fighting, but she was so unlike a horse, or a piece of light artillery, even, that I can not venture to attempt it. She was boarded up tightly with tiers of heavy oak planking, in which embrasures were cut ...

— History of Morgan's Cavalry • Basil W. Duke

... general?" groaned Raynal, looking down with a sort of superstitious awe and wonder at the lovely vixen. "Hate the best soldier the world ...

— White Lies • Charles Reade

... time Edwin had three dogs of his own named Brutus, Vixen, and Boxer. They were always with him, and so intelligent they ...

— Stories Pictures Tell - Book Four • Flora L. Carpenter

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