释义 |
vixenishly, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a vixenish or ill-tempered manner.
1845Bachelor of Albany (1848) 174 ‘Barker of the Albany!..is he the man?’ cried the termagant Mrs. Harry, vixenishly and exultingly. 1880Meredith Tragic Com. xviii, Her mother treated her vixenishly, snubbing her for a word. 1891Baring-Gould In Troubadour-Land ii. 28 [He] endeavoured to get hold of her hand. She snatched it away vixenishly. |