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Vixen

vixen

1. A female fox.

2. A cross, ill-tempered person; formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. She was a vixen when she went to school. (Shak)

Origin: AS. Fixen a she-fox, for fyxen, fem. Of fox. See Fox.


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