Complete Definition of "doxy"

English

Etymology
Perhaps from Dutch word "docke", meaning "doll"

Pronunciation
IPA|/'d�ksi/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�ksi|-�ksi

Noun
en-noun|doxies

  1. archaic A prostitute or a mistress.

#:*1922, 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? � James Joyce, Ulysses

See also
arch doxy

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