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Definition of "vixen" []

  • A female fox. (noun)
  • A woman regarded as quarrelsome, shrewish, or malicious. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vixen" in a sentence
  • "There's nothing that says exhausted, cranky and nauseous like vixen, is there?"
  • "When a vixen is voted off, Rose will brandish a gun and a rose, scream, “You’re Gonna Diiiiiie!” and then shoot her."
  • "“I am a vixen, a female fox,” she had replied with a quiver of her nostrils, and Claudia had immediately recognized that a vixen was a very grand and glorious thing to be."