vixen

Etymology

Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, either from Old English *fyxen, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsinī; synchronically analyzable as fox + -en, the voiced v- being from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English; or from the Old English adjective fyxen (“of the fox”), as in the phrase fixen hȳd (“fox skin”; compare Middle English foxen fox).

noun

1. A female fox.
2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
   […] and if Solomon was as wise as he is reputed to be, I feel sure that when he compared a contentious woman to a continual dripping on a very rainy day, he had not a vixen in his eye–a fury with long nails, acrid and selfish. 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, published 1999, page 54
   (Mimic): 'I used the plans to build a Steam Engine of my own. I was almost done when that vixen swiped it!' 2 June 2002, WayForward, Shantae, Game Boy Color, level/area: Mimic's Dock
3. (colloquial) A racy or salacious woman who is sexually attractive.
4. (colloquial) A wife who has sex with other men with her husband's consent.
   2018, ‘Stag’ men love watching other guys have sex with their wives… but it’s not cuckolding The stag gets a thrill from watching his vixen have sex with another man.