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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A mistress; a sweetheart; generally, in a bad sense, a paramour.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
  2. n. colloquial A defined opinion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a woman who cohabits with an important man

Etymologies

  1. From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy etc. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps from obsolete Dutch docke, doll. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Orthodoxy, my lord, is _my doxy_, and heterodoxy is _another man's_ doxy.”

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6

  • “Thus I perceived that every cock of the game used to call his doxy his hatchet; for with that same tool”

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4

  • “Gervase preferred a more refined kind of doxy, but he hadn't had a woman in weeks and this one was clearly available and willing.”

    Dearly Beloved

  • “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

  • “Of course, we did not understand one-half of it, and I remember that we tried in vain to get an explanation of the frequently recurring word "doxy"; but we laughed till we cried at what we did understand.”

    Recollections of My Childhood and Youth

  • “A prelate of the present day has discovered, it seems, a _third_ kind of doxy, which has not greatly exalted in the eyes of the elect that which Bentham calls "Church-of-Englandism.”

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6

  • “The dictionary defines "doxy" as a lover or mistress, so it's not surprising that the new”

    The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

  • “doxy', a couple of peasants drinking together, and Jan (or, in diminutive form, Jasiek), a youth who has just escaped from a prison to which he had been sentenced for an attack, under great provocation, on”

    Selected Polish Tales

  • “You know, like the ones you and my brothers bestow willy-nilly on every taproom maid, doxy, and opera dancer in your acquaintance.”

    Simon & Schuster: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

  • “How could she leave without knowing for sure if Giles was here consorting with some doxy?”

    Simon & Schuster: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

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hypernyms (3)

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  1. mistress
  1. fancy woman
  1. kept woman

hyponyms (1)

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  1. odalisque

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  2. band
  3. hailstorm
  4. quitter
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  1. ten-point
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rhymes (8)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Hoxie
  1. Roxy
  1. boxy
  1. epoxy
  1. foxy
  1. moxie
  1. oxy
  1. proxy

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. doll

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  • bodhi Oh Ms Rowling, you're a wacky one. Oct 2, 2008

  • bilby The antibiotic doxycycline is reasonably common. Could it be made from ... you know? Jul 13, 2008

  • chained_bear It's in Shakespeare. That's where I found it first, I think. Either that or just in the script for the Renaissance Faire I worked at. Jul 13, 2008

  • sionnach Almost all of the online dictionaries give the 'mistress'-definition for this word; suggested synonyms include concubine, courtesan, odalisque, paramour, chippy, floozy, girl friend, grisette, inamorata,
    kept mistress, kept woman, lover, mistress, nymph, nymphet, paramour, playmate, tart, unofficial wife, wanton     .

    Yet the word heterodoxy suggests there may be more to it than that. And, sure enough, dictionary.com leads with this definition:

    noun, plural dox·ies.
    1. opinion; doctrine.
    2. religious views. Jul 13, 2008

  • tolland Just had to say...Firefly rocks. Watch it, those of you who haven't done so already! Jul 13, 2008

  • mercy "Doxy training" I think the term was. Of course I had to figure that out. Jul 13, 2008

  • mercy I came across the word first in Heinlein's book Friday. Jul 13, 2008

  • pterodactyl I, too, learned this word from Firefly. I'm not sure about WordNet's definition, though; I always assumed it just meant prostitute. Jul 13, 2008

  • yarb Upstairs bounded the psychologist,
    rowed with his doxy, rushed down, said 'damn, DAMN!'...

    - Peter Reading, Ménage à Trois, from The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery, 1976 Jun 23, 2008

  • mikepurvis Like many great words, brought to my attention through the fine writing of Mr. Whedon. "I'll not be anyone's doxy," insists Saffron, in the Firefly episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds". Jan 23, 2007

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