Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a vixen; cross; ill-tempered; snarling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
vixen ; resembling a vixen.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shrewish and malicious
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Examples
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Well, that would be "a chair in which scolding and vixenish wives were formerly securely fastened, to receive the punishment of being ducked in water."
Fire escapism 2010
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Hastings and Eileen Fulton (who joined "ATWT" in May 1960 as the vixenish Lisa Grimaldi) are now the senior cast members.
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Wow, Conservative Spokesperson, Ann Coulter, actually sounded like she was about to cry in that clip, while calling Mrs. Edwards "a worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag."
Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan" 2009
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With vixenish spite will they claim to be folded, like her, to my breast, to be tenderly lifted on outstretched arms?
Peer Gynt 2008
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With vixenish spite will they claim to be folded, like her, to my breast, to be tenderly lifted on outstretched arms?
Peer Gynt 2008
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It is not a feminine perfume, at least not feminine in a sweet and dainty or come-hither and vixenish, obvious, way.
Perfume Review: Ormonde Jayne Ormonde Woman Marina Geigert 2008
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When she pushed him away or smacked his head back and forth between her hands it looked more cutely sassy than vixenish.
Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top 10, Alvin Ailey, and Bollywood 2008
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It is not a feminine perfume, at least not feminine in a sweet and dainty or come-hither and vixenish, obvious, way.
Archive 2008-03-01 Marina Geigert 2008
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‘Very well, Mr Browdie!’ said Miss Squeers, hot and flushed from the recent encounter, but vixenish to the last; ‘you’ve been and excited our boys to run away.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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Mrs. Sowerberry emerged from a little room behind the shop, and presented the form of a short, then, squeezed – up woman, with a vixenish countenance.
Oliver Twist 2007
yarb commented on the word vixenish
My all-time top-score in Scrabble.
September 23, 2022