单词 | vixen |
释义 | vixen (once / 4231 pages) 1n 2n A vixen is a female fox. Or it can be a woman with a temper. If you really want to insult a woman who is a little short on patience, call her a vixen. She won’t like it. Somewhere along the line the word vixen came to mean a hot-headed or ill-tempered person. Nowadays vixen is often used as a derisive term for an unpleasant or mean woman. Vixen also gets used frequently in descriptions of female film characters. In this way it doesn’t really mean that the character is bad tempered. As slang, to call someone a vixen means that she's sexy and flirtatious, a label she may or may not like. WORD FAMILYvixen: vixenish, vixens+/vixenish: vixenishly USAGE EXAMPLESBlack bass are fair on shallow crankbaits, Reaction Innovations Vixens and Texas rigged worms. Washington Times(Oct 19, 2016) Pitt looked like a doting father figure instead of a cad, and Jolie was a barefoot beach mama instead of a vixen. Slate(Sep 20, 2016) The comics company also aired Static Shock, and is producing the second season of the Vixen animated series for CW Seed. The Verge(Sep 01, 2016) 1 n a female fox 2Hyper fox alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs n a malicious woman with a fierce temper Syn|Hyper harpy, hellcat disagreeable woman, unpleasant woman a woman who is an unpleasant person |
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