Minx

Quick meaning: Minx is a noun meaning A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.

Meaning

A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory, dated) A promiscuous woman; also, a mistress (“the other woman in an extramarital relationship”) or a prostitute.
2. (ambitransitive) Used transitively when followed by it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.
3. (transitive) To make (someone) like a minx; (intransitive) to become like a minx.
4. Obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”).
5. (obsolete) A pet dog.

Example Sentences

How Huſſie! was there ever ſuch a provoking Minx?

Miſs Herbert. So good, Mr. gallant, gay Lothario of ſixty-five, a good morning to you. [Exit. Miſs Herbert. / Old Manly. A ſaucy minx.

Hopkins says she is a dressed-up little minx who runs after all the young men in the parish; but really, from what I see and hear from other persons, I think she is a good girl enough.

A widow with a child was at a disadvantage with these pretty little minxes, she thought. But in these exciting days her widowhood and her motherhood weighed less heavily upon her than ever before.

Word Forms

• minxes
• minxing
• minxed

Synonyms for minx

Depending on context, synonyms include concubine, doxy, dulcinea, goomah, leman, loon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include prickteaser, coquette, tease, flirt, vamper, vamp.

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