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plural vixens
A female fox. examples
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman. quotations examples
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.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […]
[…] 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.
1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54
(Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'
2002 June 2, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock
(colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive. examples
(colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent. quotations examples
The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.
2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding