Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—V

Vixen

A female fox. Metaphorically, a woman of villainous and ungovernable temper. (Anglo-Saxon, fixeu.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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