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Definition: Vixen |
VixenNoun1. A malicious fierce-tempered woman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vixen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Vixen \Vix"en\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression fixen she-fox, for fyxen, feminine of fox. See Fox.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Vixen A female fox. Metaphorically, a woman of villainous and ungovernable temper. (Anglo-Saxon, fixeu.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | VIXEN. A termagant; also a she fox, who, when she has cubs, is remarkably fierce. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: VixenSynonyms: harpy (n), hellcat (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar. |
Irascibility | Sir Fretful Plagiary; brabbler, Tartar; shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe; porcupine; spitfire; fire eater; (blusterer); fury; (violent person). |
Woman | Hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vixen |
| English words defined with "vixen": F ♦ Vixenly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vixen": Bald ♦ Catch Me at It! ♦ Devil and his Dam ♦ HELL CAT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vixen": Fox. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Sorry, Vixen but I'm going to run. And try to win and everything (Hooves of Fire; writing credit: Andy Riley; Kevin Cecil) Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Angelica: The Young Vixen (1970) Vixen! (1968) The Vixen (1916) Vixen Highway (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Halftone photograph, published in the book War in Cuba, 1898, showing Suwanee underway off Siboney, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War. Ships in the background include USS St. Louis (left) and USS Vixen (right). Credit: NAVY. |  | U.S.S. Vixen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. Steamer Vixen, U.S. Gun Boat Curlew, [and] U.S. Gun Boat "Pochahontas". Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Vixen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vixen" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 61 | 43,149 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vixen | 1,090 | beneath the valley of the ultra vixen | 17 |
vega vixen | 169 | virtual vixen | 14 |
ultra vixen | 138 | angel vixen | 14 |
voluptuous vixen | 79 | mature vixen | 14 |
kat vixen | 76 | vintage vixen | 13 |
lamoore vixen | 59 | vixen young | 13 |
playboy voluptuous vixen | 53 | sheila vixen | 13 |
download ultra vixen | 45 | teen vixen | 13 |
video vixen | 40 | busty vixen | 13 |
vixen wrestling | 32 | download free ultra vixen | 12 |
val vixen | 28 | ebony vixen | 11 |
controlled library vixen | 26 | logan vixen | 11 |
super vixen | 24 | asian vixen | 11 |
vixen motor home | 24 | sex vixen | 11 |
xxx vixen | 23 | sexy vixen | 10 |
vixen telescope | 21 | escort vixen | 10 |
vixen hill gazebo | 19 | vixen movie | 10 |
controlled vixen | 18 | foot vixen | 9 |
2 ultra vixen | 17 | orgy vixen | 9 |
hill vixen | 17 | devil she vixen | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "vixen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gjuhustër (virago), dhelpër femër. (various references) | |
Arabic | امرأة مشاكسة, ثعلبة أنثى الثعلب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свадлива жена, кавгаджийка (scold, virago), женска лисица. (various references) | |
Czech | liška (bitch, Fox), draèice (shrew, virago), ïáblice. (various references) | |
Dutch | xantippe (shrew, Xanthippe), wijfjesvos, wijf (shrew), wýfjesvos, wýf (shrew, Xanthippe), tang (shrew, Xanthippe), moervos, megera (shrew, Xanthippe), helleveeg (shrew, Xanthippe), haaibaai (shrew, Xanthippe), furie (shrew, Xanthippe), feeks (shrew, Xanthippe). (various references) | |
Farsi | زن پتیاره , روباه ماده . (various references) | |
Finnish | äkäpussi (shrew). (various references) | |
French | renarde. (various references) | |
Frisian | tange (shrew, Xanthippe), helheak (shrew, Xanthippe), fekke (shrew, Xanthippe). (various references) | |
German | Füchsin. (various references) | |
Greek | στρίγγλα (hag, shrew, virago, witch), μέγαιρα (shrew), θηλυκιά αλεπού, θηλυκή αλεπού, θηλειά αλώπηξ, δύστροπη γυναίκα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | שועל", אשת מ" ים (shrew, virago), סוררת (termagant). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárkány (airframe, basilisk, brimstone, cockatrice, dragon, drake, kite, wyvern), nõstény róka, nőstény róka, női sárkány, komisz asszony, gonosz asszony, boszorkány (beldam, hag, hell-cat, hex, sorceress, virago, witch). (various references) | |
Italian | megera (beldame, harridan, jezebel, shrew, termagant, virago, Xanthippe). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雌の狐 (bitch fox). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めすのきつね (bitch fox). (various references) | |
Manx | spittag (sharp-tongued woman, shrew, spitfire, verbose woman), shynnagh bwoirryn (she-fox), shynnagh bwoirrin (she-fox), gaddee dy ven. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ixenvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | megera (beldam, randy, shrew, shrewish, termagant, Xanthippe). (various references) | |
Romanian | vulpe (Fox, pug, pussyfoot, she-fox), viespe (hornet, scold, shrew, termagant), zgripţuroaicã (crone, grimalkin, hag, termagant), scorpie (devil's daughter, fury, hag, Randy, scorpion, shrew, termagant, virago), femeie rea şi arţãgoasã, ciumã (fright, fury, hag, lues, murrain, plague, scarecrow, shrew, termagant), şerpoaicã (hussy, shrew). (various references) | |
Russian | сварливая женщина (cat, nagger, rater, scold, termagant, virago), самка лисицы, лисица (puggy, tod). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svađalica (battle axe, brawler, termagant), rospija (harpy), oštrokondža (hellcat, shrew), oštrokonđa (hellcat, shrew), lisica (fox), aspida (asp, randy, scorpion). (various references) | |
Spanish | zorra (bitch, Fox). (various references) | |
Swedish | rävhona (she-fox), ragata (shrew, termagant, termagent, virago, Xanthippe). (various references) | |
Turkish | tilki (crafty fellow, cunning fellow, Fox, Reynard, sly fellow, Tod), huysuz kadın (scold, wild cat), dişi tilki (bitch fox), cadaloz (battle axe, bitch, grimalkin, hag, harridan, old cat, scold, shrew, shrewish, spiteful, termagant, virago). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мегера (termagant, virago), лисиця. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đ n b lăng lo n (minx, termagant). (various references) | |
Welsh | llwynoges, cadnawes. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vixen": vixenish, vixenly, vixens. (additional references) | |
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"Vixen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dixen, fixen, sixen, vaxe, vexe, vexem, vexen, vexin, vfixen, vicen, viden, vien, viena, vient, vilen, vinex, viten, vix, vixe, vixed, vixel, vixin, vixle, vixon, vizen, voxe, voxel, voxen, voxer, Vuren. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vixen" (pronounced vi"ksi'n) |
| 3 | -s i' n | moccasin, niacin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-v-x" | |
-1 letter: nevi, nixe, vein, vine. | |
-2 letters: nix, vex, vie. | |
-3 letters: en, ex, in, ne, xi. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-v-x" | |
+1 letter: vernix, vexing, vixens. | |
+2 letters: vixenly. | |
+3 letters: biconvex, vernixes, vexation, vexingly, vixenish. | |
+4 letters: convexity, expansive, expensive, extensive, vexations. | |
+5 letters: excavating, excavation, extinctive, exuviating, exuviation, overmixing, overtaxing. | |
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