vixenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Alteration of earlier fixen, from 中期英語 fixen, from 古期英語 *fyxen (compare also 古期英語 fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of 中期英語. Alternatively, from the 古期英語 adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare 中期英語 foxen fox).

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɪk.sən/
• 韻: -ɪksən, -ɪksɪn

名詞

vixen (plural vixens)

1. A female fox.

   Synonyms: she-fox (rare), foxess (rare)

2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman. [from late 16 c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shrew

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

     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.

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

     […] 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.

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

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

3. (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman, Thesaurus:vamp

   Hyponym: silver vixen

4. (colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
   • 2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding

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

等位語

• (female fox): dog-fox, reynard, tod; (male fox)

派生語

参考

• bull
• cuckold
• cuckquean
• stag

参照

アナグラム

• invex