vixen: [15] The only Old English word on record for a ‘female fox’ is fyxe. Fixene first appears in the late Middle English period. It was formed using the suffix -en, denoting ‘female’. This was once quite common – Old English had biren ‘female bear’, for instance, and gyden ‘goddess’ – but it now survives only in vixen. (Its German counterpart, -in, is still a live suffix.) The initial v of vixen comes from southwestern England. => fox
vixen (n.)
Old English *fyxen (implied in adjective fyxan), fem. of fox (see fox (n.) and cognate with Middle High German vühsinne, German füchsin). Solitary English survival of the Germanic feminine suffix -en, -in (also in Old English gyden "goddess;" mynecen "nun," from munuc "monk;" wlyfen "she-wolf," etc.). The figurative sense "ill-tempered woman" is attested from 1570s. The spelling shift from -f- to -v- began late 1500s (see V).
例文
1. One morning when a vixen was taking her babies out of the lair，she saw a lioness and her cub.
ある朝、雌狐は彼女の子供を連れて巣穴を出て、雌獅子とその子供を見た。
2.With an angelic face and a vixen body nobody can resist her.
天使のような顔と鬼嫁のような体つきをしていて抵抗することはできません。
3.Winner of G 4 Video Game Vixen for Dressed to Kill even though she hardly wears anything.
G 4ビデオゲームは殺人の勝者を装っているが、彼女はほとんど何も着ていない。
4.Take a look back at the actress 'big screen as a heat-packing vixen .