doxy (noun)

  • 1doxy — noun /ˈdɒksi/ a) A prostitute or a mistress. Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal? b) A defined opinion. So… …

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  • 2doxy — I. /ˈdɒksi/ (say doksee) noun (plural doxies) an opinion or doctrine, especially concerning religious matters. Also, doxie. {abstracted from orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.} II. /ˈdɒksi/ (say doksee) noun (plural doxies) Archaic …

  • 3doxy — also doxie noun (plural doxies) Etymology: perhaps modification of obsolete Dutch docke doll, from Middle Dutch Date: 1515 1. floozy, prostitute 2. mistress 4a …

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  • 4doxy — [ dɒksi] noun (plural doxies) archaic a lover or mistress. ↘a prostitute. Origin C16: of unknown origin …

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  • 5arch doxy — noun The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue) Syn: arch dell …

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  • 6kept woman — noun an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man • Syn: ↑mistress, ↑fancy woman • Hypernyms: ↑woman, ↑adult female, ↑lover • Hyponyms: ↑concu …

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  • 7doxie — noun see doxy …

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  • 8darkmans — noun The night. I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom Ill tumble this next darkmans in the strommel [...] …

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  • 9arch dell — noun The head of a gang of female canters or gypsies (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue) Syn: arch doxy …

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  • 10concubine — noun, archaic she was the reluctant concubine of Prince Percival Syn: mistress, courtesan, kept woman; lover; archaic paramour, doxy; historical hetaera …

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