Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A female lover; a mistress.
- n. Slang A sexually promiscuous woman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mistress; a sweetheart; generally, in a bad sense, a paramour.
Wiktionary
- n. A prostitute or a mistress.
- n. A defined opinion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman who cohabits with an important man
Etymologies
- Perhaps from obsolete Dutch docke, doll.
Examples
“Orthodoxy, my lord, is _my doxy_, and heterodoxy is _another man's_ doxy.”
“Thus I perceived that every cock of the game used to call his doxy his hatchet; for with that same tool”
“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.”
“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 dictionary defines "doxy" as a lover or mistress, so it's not surprising that the new”
“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”
“You know, like the ones you and my brothers bestow willy-nilly on every taproom maid, doxy, and opera dancer in your acquaintance.”
“How could she leave without knowing for sure if Giles was here consorting with some doxy?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doxy’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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words I learned from Firefly
Joss Whedon knows no shame
fancible, foufaraw, frippery, corpsified, shindig, rutting, creepifying, gorram, ironical, sanguine, pantywaist ijit, whinge and 24 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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