vixenry
English
Etymology
vixen + -ry, since 1830s.
Noun
vixenry (uncountable)
- (rare) The state of being a vixen (salacious woman).
- 1831, The World of Fashion, page 269:
- "Whom you frightened away with a peal of vixenry!" interrupted Michael.
- 1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Maid Margaret of Galloway, page 187:
- "There," she said, waving her hand abroad with something of her old mocking vixenry, “go - search the castle. It is yours - by marriage. You will not even find my husband here. He is doing your errands at Douglas Castle."
- 2013, The Albino Album: A Novel, page 419:
- The other girls were frumpier, more sturdy and heavily made up. These boys must have thought this little darlingo on my lap a perfect vixen, but I knew firsthand the master of vixenry, and was only lightly impressed by the affections of one of her fairy minions.
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