doxy

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“
She's the Duke's doxy, an he'll run ye through the body ef ye tech her. "

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

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  • "So I am to subject myself to having my daughter taken from my care and from her nurse's care arid put into that of your doxy," she said. —  Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl
  • She was in the court because her father and uncle were ambitious, and anyway, she's a manipulative doxy. —  Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org
  • I was wondering if it is possible to add class & function names in the doxy comments? —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • "French manicures haven't been fashionable in years, but ambitious, ornamental women -- dancers, porn queens, trophy wives, rich divorcees -- insist on them still, and for good reason: Nothing signals femininity engaged as a survival mechanism like those prim," nice girl "colors painted on in doxy detail." —  RVABlogs
  • Iran's theocratic government, about two years ago, pretending that a female British sailor was not really a sailor, but perhaps the ship's doxy or something: —  Progressive Bloggers
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Etymologies (2)

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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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