doxy

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  1. noun Slang A female lover; a mistress.
  2. noun Slang A sexually promiscuous woman.

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  • His orthodoxy was his doxy, and he cared very little for the doxy of any other man or set of men. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • Now I have a 'doxy' (as Warburton called it), that there is no exercise of the mind so little profitable to the mind as the study of languages. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • I doubt not but my reader, by this time, may be apt to think that I have been all this while only building a castle in the air; and be ready to say to me: —  God, Aids & Circumcision
  • Lady wore clothing that made her look like a doxy, the legate's momentary fancy. —  Shadow Games
  • I dare say your doxy is already telling them all she knows." —  EQMM,January2006
 

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  1. Perhaps from obsolete Dutch docke, doll.

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  1. Also formerly doxie, doccy; a slang or cant term, prob. of D, or Low German origin, as if from Dutch doketje, diminutive of MD, docke = Low German dokke = East Fries, dok, dokke, a doll. Cf. East Friesic doktje, a small bundle, diminutive of dok, Low German dokke, a bundle, supposed to be the same word as dok, a doll: see under dock. Cf. duck, from the same source.
 

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/ˈdɑksi/
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