vixen
A female foxA female fox.
» The vixen is feeding her cubs.
Die Füchsin füttert ihre Welpen.
Die Fähe füttert ihre Welpen.
Лисица кормит лисят.
Meaning
4 sensesA female fox.
Füchsin, Fähe
лиси́цаlisíca, лиса́lisá
лисицяlysycja
a female fox
A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
Schlampe, Drachen, Zicke
су́каsúka, сте́рваstérva
a malicious woman with a fierce temper
(colloquial)A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive; any attractive woman.
(colloquial)A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
Examples
10 sentencesThe vixen is feeding her cubs.
ruЛисица кормит лисят.
deDie Füchsin füttert ihre Welpen.
The abbot gave rice to the vixen.
A vixen lives in our garden with her five puppies.
deBei uns im Garten wohnt eine Füchsin mit ihren fünf Welpen.
The calendar featured photos of bikini-clad vixens draped over sports cars.
Is it a vixen?
deIst das eine Füchsin?
Translations
9 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 2
By meaning 2
Origin
Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, fixene, from Old English *fyxen (cAlteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, fixene, from Old English *fyxen (compare also Old English fyxe (“female fox”)), from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; the voiced v- comes from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English. Alternatively, from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).
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