minx

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“
Fouines_, a quadruped known as the minx or mink, Mustela vison 185.

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  1. noun A girl or young woman who is considered pert, flirtatious, or impudent.
  2. noun Obsolete A promiscuous woman.

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  • What if the minx wasn't particularly young and pretty. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916
  • He would have been sure that the girl was a minx, and the man a fool. —  The Heather-Moon
  • No, as with politics, so with poetry; in public I abjure and do renounce the minx: and although privately my author's mind is so silly as to doat right lovingly on such an ancient mistress, and has wasted much time and paper in her praise or service, still that mind is sufficiently self-possessed in worldly prudence, as to set seemingly little store on the worth of an acquaintance so little in the fashion. —  An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • I don't understand That I'm a pert minx or something. —  Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley
  • The 'minx' shook her curls, and flirted through the window with a handsome but ill-tempered looking man on a fine horse, who praised her 'golden locks,' as he called them; and oddly enough, when Melchior said that the man was a lout, and that the locks in question were corkscrewy carrot shavings, she only seemed to like the man and his compliments the more. —  In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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  1. Probably from obsolete mynx, playful little dog, perhaps from alteration of obsolete Dutch minneken, darling; see minikin.

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  1. Formerly minks, mynxe; a reduced form of miniken, with added -s (as also mawks, for mawkin, malkin).
  2. Also minks; an erroneous form of mink, due to the plural, or perhaps (as New Latin minx) to conformation with lynx: see mink.
 

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