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vixen

noun
🔊/ˈvɪksn/
🔊/ˈvɪksn/
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  1. a female fox雌狐 (= a wild animal of the dog family)Topics Animalsc2
  2. (old-fashioned) an unpleasant and angry woman 泼妇；悍妇；母夜叉
    3. Word Originlate Middle English fixen, perhaps from the Old English adjective fyxen ‘of a fox’. The v- is from the form of the word in southern English dialect.