| 词汇 | vixen |
| 词源 | vixen. Why should a female fox be a vixen? The word arose as a corruption in southern English dialects, with their predilec- tion for v, of the Old English fyxen, “female fox.” First recorded in the early 15th century, it took almost 200 years before the word was applied to an ill-tempered woman or shrew, Shake- speare using it thus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. |
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