Synonyms:
vixen, harpy, hellcat
Meaning: a malicious woman with a fierce temper
Usage examples
For the first moment he thought the room was empty, and his vixen got away, for he could see no sign of her anywhere.
His vixen was tired by then, as well as he, and they slept together, he in the bed and she under it, very contentedly.
For the sudden changing of Mrs. Tebrick into a vixen is an established fact which we may attempt to account for as we will.
Mr. Tebrick stopped short in consternation and looked about for his vixen, but she had run forward without any shyness to greet her.
Now he fortified himself with two or three glasses of strong whisky and went to bed, taking his vixen into his arms, where he slept soundly.
His vixen relished them exceedingly and seemed never to tire of them, so that he increased his order first from one pound to three pounds and afterwards to five.
Then she ran hither and thither a stark naked vixen, and without giving a glance to her poor husband who stood silently now upon the bank, with despair and terror settled in his mind.
"True happiness," he said to himself, "is to be found in bestowing love; there is no such happiness as that of the mother for her babe, unless I have attained it in mine for my vixen and her children."
From this too sanguine dream he was aroused by hearing the gardener speaking to the dogs, trying to quiet them, for ever since he had come in with his vixen they had been whining, barking and growling, and all as he knew because there was a fox within doors and they would kill it.