vixen


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vixen/ˈvɪksn/
noun
  • 1 a female fox.
  • 2 a spirited or quarrelsome woman.
– derivatives
vixenish adjective.
– origin ME fixen, perh. from OE fyxen ‘of a fox’.
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