Coxy vs Doxy - What's the difference?
coxy | doxy |
(obsolete) cocky
* 1859 "Adam Bede" - George Eliot
*:...couldn't abide a fellow who thought he made himself fine by being coxy to's betters...
(archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:
(colloquial) A defined opinion.
As an adjective coxy
is cocky.As a noun doxy is
a sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.coxy
English
Adjective
doxy
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from (etyl) *.Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(doxies)- 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?
- 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.