英语词汇“vixenish”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

vixenish

释义

vixenish, a.|ˈvɪks(ə)nɪʃ|
[f. prec. + -ish¹.]
1. Resembling a vixen in disposition; cross, ill-tempered, snappish.
1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. 109 My friend Daphne, the vixenish pug.1841Lever C. O'Malley lxvii, Others are married and have vixenish wives.1880M. E. Braddon Just as I am xlv, He could hardly endure existence in the house that held his vixenish sisters.
Comb.1837Dickens Pickw. xlvi, Two small vixenish looking ladies.
2. Characteristic of, appropriate to, a vixen.
1838Dickens O. Twist iv, A short, thin, squeezed-up woman, with a vixenish countenance.1865Dublin Univ. Mag. I. 261 She..rang the bell with vixenish violence.1889Sat. Rev. 23 Feb. 208/2 The trashy verbiage, the vixenish tattle,..to which they are treated.
Hence ˈvixenishness.
1820Examiner No. 651. 633/1 Madge is too apt to think that vixenishness and virtue go together.1865Mrs. Whitney Gayworthys I. 117 She would never sharpen or narrow to vixenishness.

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