different between hellcat vs vixen

English

Etymology

hell +? cat

Noun

hellcat (plural hellcats)

1. A witch.
2. A spiteful and violent person, especially a woman.

Synonyms

• (witch): See Thesaurus:magician
• (spiteful woman): See Thesaurus:shrew

Translations

References

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Anagrams

• calleth

English

Alternative forms

• fixen, vixon (both obsolete)

Etymology

Alteration of earlier fixen, from Middle English fixen, from Old English fyxen, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhsini; synchronically analyzable as fox +? -en. Voiced v- is from the Southern dialectal forms of Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?k.s?n/
• Rhymes: -?ks?n, -?ks?n

Noun

vixen (plural vixens)

1. A female fox.
2. A malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman.
   • 1859:, George Eliot. Adam Bede: page 54. Köln: Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1999:

     […] 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.

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.

Synonyms

• (malicious, quarrelsome or temperamental woman): See Thesaurus:shrew
• (racy or salacious woman): See Thesaurus:promiscuous woman or Thesaurus:vamp

Hypernyms

• (female fox): fox

Coordinate terms

• (female fox): dog-fox, reynard, tod; (male fox)

Related terms

• bull
• cuckold
• cuckquean
• stag

Translations

Anagrams

• invex