n. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
n. A racy or salacious woman.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A female fox.
n. A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A she-fox.
n. Hence A turbulent, quarrelsome woman; a scold; a termagant: formerly used occasionally of a man.
Vixenish.
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n. a malicious woman with a fierce temper
n. a female fox
Word Usage
"“I am a vixen, a female fox,” she had replied with a quiver of her nostrils, and Claudia had immediately recognized that a vixen was a very grand and glorious thing to be."