What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Doxy - What does it mean?

doxy | |

is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun doxy

is a sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.

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.

    • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.