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vixen definition

vixen (vik′sən)

noun

  1. a female fox
  2. an ill-tempered, shrewish, or malicious woman

Etymology: ME (southern dial.) fixen < OE fyxe, she-fox (or fyxen, adj., of a fox) < fox, fox

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