doxy
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈdɒksi/
doxy (plural doxies)
- (archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
- 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix
- However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:
- So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.
- 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix
doxy (plural doxies)
- (colloquial) A defined opinion.
- Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
doxy (uncountable)
- (informal, pharmaceutical drug) Clipping of doxycycline#English|doxycycline.
doxy (plural doxies)
- (informal) A dachshund.
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