doxy
IPA: dˈɑksi
noun
- (archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
- (colloquial) A defined opinion.
- (informal) A dachshund.
- (informal, pharmacology) Clipping of doxycycline. [(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ of the tetracycline class, which has a long half-life in the body and used orally to treat various bacterial infections.]
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Examples of "doxy" in Sentences
- "Orthodoxy, my lord, is _my doxy_, and heterodoxy is _another man's_ doxy."
- The DOXY always looked innocent carrying a backpack and knitting as she walked.
- The dictionary defines "doxy" as a lover or mistress, so it's not surprising that the new
- Thus I perceived that every cock of the game used to call his doxy his hatchet; for with that same tool
- Gervase preferred a more refined kind of doxy, but he hadn't had a woman in weeks and this one was clearly available and willing.
- You know, like the ones you and my brothers bestow willy-nilly on every taproom maid, doxy, and opera dancer in your acquaintance.
- Now I have a 'doxy' (as Warburton called it), that there is no exercise of the mind so little profitable to the mind as the study of languages.
- A prelate of the present day has discovered, it seems, a _third_ kind of doxy, which has not greatly exalted in the eyes of the elect that which Bentham calls "Church-of-Englandism."
- Of course, we did not understand one-half of it, and I remember that we tried in vain to get an explanation of the frequently recurring word "doxy"; but we laughed till we cried at what we did understand.
- 'doxy', a couple of peasants drinking together, and Jan (or, in diminutive form, Jasiek), a youth who has just escaped from a prison to which he had been sentenced for an attack, under great provocation, on
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