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A female fox, or a woman who's clearly figured out she's the smartest one in the room.
means Literally a female fox, and by extension a sharp-tempered, fierce, or seductively self-assured woman.
from From Old English *fyxen*, the feminine form of *fox* — and that vowel shift (o to i) is a fossil of an old Germanic pattern for marking female animals, seen in words like 'vicar' never, but preserved in southern English dialects that also turned 'f' into 'v' at the start of words (compare 'vat' from 'fat,' the tub). So 'vixen' carries two sound-shifts fused into one word: a feminine suffix and a dialect's soft spot for voicing its f's.
- literal meaning
- Female fox, technically
- word origin
- Old English fyxen, feminine of fox
- santa connection
- One of his reindeer, oddly enough
- modern usage
- Compliment and side-eye, simultaneously