vixen

plural vixens · alternative obsolete fixen · alternative obsolete vixon

1. A female fox.

   Synonyms: she-fox, foxess

2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.First known use late 16ᵗʰ c.

   (Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!'

   2002 June 2, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock

   2 more examples

   He was prudent and industrious, and so good a husbandman, that he might have led a very easy and comfortable life, had not an arrant vixen of a wife soured his domestic quiet.

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

   […] and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dripping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish.

   1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54

   Synonyms: battle axe, bitch, brim, brimstone, cat, cockatrice, crow, dragon

3. colloquialA racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.

   Synonyms: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article

4. colloquialA wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.

   The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.

   2018 June 1, Holly O'Mahony, Lollie Barr, “‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding”, in The Sun, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2018

1. The fourth reindeer of Santa Claus.