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coxy | doxy |

As an adjective coxy

is cocky.

As a noun doxy is

a sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.

coxy

English

Adjective

  • (obsolete) cocky
  • * 1859 "Adam Bede" - George Eliot
  • *:...couldn't abide a fellow who thought he made himself fine by being coxy to's betters...

    • doxy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps from (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (doxies)
  • (archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
    • Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra , a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:
    • So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies , open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.
    Synonyms
    * (l)

    See also

    * arch doxy

    Etymology 2

    From -doxy in (orthodoxy), (heterodoxy) etc.

    Noun

    (doxies)
  • (colloquial) A defined opinion.