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vixenish, a. (ˈvɪks(ə)nɪʃ) [f. prec. + -ish1.] 1. Resembling a vixen in disposition; cross, ill-tempered, snappish.1828 Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. 109 My friend Daphne, the vixenish pug. 1841 Lever C. O'Malley lxvii, Others are married and have vixenish wives. 1880 M. E. Braddon Just as I am xlv...
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vixenish
vixenish/ˈvɪksənɪʃ; `vɪksnɪʃ/ adj: her nasty, vixenish ways 她那泼妇般的凶相.
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Andrea del Sarto
However, Vasari describes her as "faithless, jealous, and vixenish with the apprentices". She is similarly characterized in Robert Browning's poem.
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vixenishly
vixenishly, adv. [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a vixenish or ill-tempered manner.1845 Bachelor of Albany (1848) 174 ‘Barker of the Albany!..is he the man?’ cried the termagant Mrs. Harry, vixenishly and exultingly. 1880 Meredith Tragic Com. xviii, Her mother treated her vixenishly, snubbing her for a word. ...
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Pnina Tornai
According to The New York Times, Tornai's dresses are considered "vixenish".
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vixen
vixen, n. and a. (ˈvɪks(ə)n) Forms: 5–8 fixen (5 fixene), 6– vixen (7 vixinge, 8 vixin), 7–8 vixon. [repr. OE. *fyxen (= MHG. vühsinne, G. füchsin), fem. of fox fox. Cf. OE. fyxen adj. ‘of a fox’ (= OHG. fuhsîn, MHG. vühsîn). The word is one of the few in which the southern v for f has definitely es...
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Inventing the Abbotts
Connelly, often cast in cheesecake roles, gives this one a sly, vixenish spark.”
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
At the beginning, she lives with her mother and her vixenish cousin Amy (Mary Anderson); she remembers when her father had a farm near the town.
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white heat
white heat [heat n. 1 c.] That degree of heat or temperature (higher than red heat) at which metals and some other bodies radiate white light; the state of being white-hot.1710 J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, White or Flame Heat; is a Degree of Heat given by Smiths to their Iron..: This is a less Heat tha...
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Brigid Bazlen
King of Kings] gives historical context to the best-known Biblical tale and features many memorable moments, such as a moving Sermon on the Mount and a vixenish
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The Monks of Malabar
Boolboom has fled from France to India to escape the vixenish temper of Anita Tivoli to whom he was engaged to be married.
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fast
▪ I. fast, n.1 (fɑːst, -æ-) Also 3–6 faste, Orm. fasste. [Early ME. faste, prob. a. ON. fasta (Da. faste, Sw. fasta), = OS. fasta, OHG. fasta (MHG. vaste), f. OTeut. fastêjan to fast. The OE. synonym was fæsten: see fasten n.] 1. An act or instance of fasting: a. as a religious observance, or as an ...
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Mary Jackson (Richmond bread riot)
A court reporter remarked in 1863 that Jackson was "an athletic woman of 40, with straight, strong features and a vixenish eye."
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something
something, n. (a.), and adv. (ˈsʌmθɪŋ) Forms: 1 sum þing(c), ðing, 2 sum ðinc, 3–5 sumþing, 3– 6 -thing; 4 somþing (zom-), -þyng, 5 -thyng (6 -e), 7 somthing; 6– something, 6 -thyng, 9 dial. somethin', etc. [f. some a.1 2 + thing n.1 17. Orig., and freq. down to the end of the 16th cent., written as...
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Women in Cuba
In the sex tourism industry, Afro-Cuban female sex workers became publicly associated as some distinct and vixenish type of exotic objects.
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