vixen |?v?ks(?)n| noun a female fox. • a spiteful or quarrelsome woman.
DERIVATIVES vixenish adjective ORIGIN late Middle English fixen, perhaps from the Old English adjective fyxen [of a fox.] The v- is from the form of the word in southern English dialect.
DERIVATIVES vixenish adjective ORIGIN late Middle English fixen, perhaps from the Old English adjective fyxen [of a fox.] The v- is from the form of the word in southern English dialect.

