doxy adj.
1. of a woman, corrupt, amoral, whorish; usu. as doxy-dell
![]() | Scoundrel’s Dict. |
2. with ref. other than to a woman, flashy, ‘tarted up’.
![]() | Drop Dead, My Lovely (2005) 133: Atlantic City was its usual dolled up doxy self. |
In compounds
a whore.
![]() | O per se O O1: This Doxie dell, can cut bien whids, and wap well for a win. | ‘Canting Song’|
![]() | Works (1869) II 144: For two-pence in some drunken Bawdy-booth, / To please thy Doxy-dells sweet stinking tooth. | ‘Taylors Revenge’ in|
![]() | Eng. Rogue I 36: A health went round to the Prince of Maunders [...] a third to the Marquess of Doxy Dells and Rum morts. | |
![]() | Triumph of Wit 216: [as cit. 1612]. |