# vixen

Pronunciation: say "VIK-suhn" /ˈvɪk.sən/

## Noun

1. A sexually attractive woman who is racy or provocative; more loosely, any attractive woman. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A very attractive woman, especially one who is bold and sexy.
   - _In the film she plays a sultry vixen who lures the detective into a trap._
   - _The perfume ad featured a red-lipped vixen in a leather jacket._
2. A female fox.
   - Simple: A fox that is a female.
   - _At dusk the vixen led her cubs out of the den to hunt along the hedgerow._
   - _In late winter, the screams of vixens echo through the woods at night._
3. A spiteful, quarrelsome or bad-tempered woman.
   - Simple: A woman who is mean, likes to argue, or gets angry easily.
   - _His landlady was a vixen who screamed at tenants over the smallest noise._
   - _That little vixen stole my seat and then laughed about it!_

## Other meanings

- (noun) A married woman who, with her husband's consent, has sex with other men.

## Origin

An alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English *fyxen (compare fyxe, "female fox"), from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from southern dialect forms of Middle English. Alternatively, it may come from the Old English adjective fyxen ("of the fox"), as in fixen hȳd ("fox skin").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/vixen (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).