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▪ I. doxy1|ˈdɒksɪ|
Also 6 doccy, 6–7 doxe, 7 doxie, doxye, 7– doxey.
[Derivation unknown: perh. like some other terms of rogues' cant, of continental origin; possibly a deriv. of dock n.2 3.]
Originally the term in Vagabonds' Cant for the unmarried mistress of a beggar or rogue: a beggar's trull or wench: hence, slang, a mistress, paramour, prostitute; dial., a wench, sweetheart.
c1530Hickscorner in Hazl. Dodsley I. 188 Of the stews I am made controller..There shall no man play doccy there.. Without they have leave of me. 1561J. Awdelay Frat. Vacab. 4 His woman with him..which he calleth his Altham if she be hys wyfe, & if she be his harlot, she is called hys Doxy. Ibid. 5 So she is called a Doxy, vntil she come to y⊇ honor of an Altham [in Harman Autem]. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. ii. 2 With, heigh the Doxy ouer the dale. 1611Dekker Roaring Girle Wks. 1873 III. 217 My doxy stayes for me in a bousing ken. 1711Steele Spect. No. 6 ⁋2 The Beggar..while he has a warm Fire and his Doxy, never reflects that he deserves to be whipped. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Doxy, a sweetheart; but not in the equivocal sense used by Shak. and other play writers. 1827Hone Every-Day Bk. II. 1656 Surrounded by plough-boys and their doxeys. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret iii. i. 71 Spending all my money among doxies and strolling players.
▪ II. ˈdoxy2 colloq. (usually humorous.)
[The latter part of the words orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc., from Gr. δόξα opinion.]
Opinion (esp. in religious or theological matters). (Cf. -ism.) So dox.
1730J. Asgill Woolston 2. 1756 T. Amory J. Buncle (1825) III. 19 Orthodox and other dox. 17..Warburton in Priestley's Mem. I. 372 ‘Orthodoxy, my Lord’, said Bishop Warburton..‘is my doxy,—heterodoxy is another man's doxy.’ 1778J. Q. Adams Diary 30 Nov., Orthodoxy is my doxy, and heterodoxy is your doxy. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 174 [Dryden] made him [Chaucer] a much finer speaker, and not, according to our doxy, so good a versifier. 1843Tait's Mag. X. 579 Heterodoxy..does not mean cacodoxy at all..but only another man's doxy: your doxy generally as opposed to mine. 1868Illustr. Lond. News 11 Apr. 351 This is not the place for the discussion of ‘doxies’. |