noun
Meaning 1
A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
minx
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /mɪŋks/
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homophone: minks
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rhymes with -ɪŋks
noun
Meaning 2
A promiscuous woman; also, a mistress (“the other woman in an extramarital relationship”) or a prostitute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, derogatory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bit on the side, concubine, doxy, dulcinea, goomah, leman, loon, minx, mistress, number two, side bitch, side chick, side piece, side ting, sprunk, strumpet, wench, wifelet, NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella, bop, chippy, cocotte, cockatrice, cockslut, cockwhore, crumpet, cum dumpster, cum guzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, Cyprian, demimondaine, drab, eager beaver, Essex girl, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, fuckstress, Fulham virgin, geebag, giglot, gillian, gill, good-time girl, grim, grisette, harlot, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoe, hoochie mama, hoochie, hood rat, ho, hussy, jade, jay, jillflirt, lady of light virtue, LBFM, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loose woman, lorette, mab, manizer, moll, mort wap-apace, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, puta, puzzel, quean, Quicumque vult, quiff, rig, scag, scrubber, skank, skettle, sket, skit, slag, slapper, slattern, sloven, slutbag, slut, stale, streel, sweet cheeks, tartlet, tart, thotty, thot, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trollop, trull, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, whore, abandons, almah, bangtail, Bankside lady, bargirl, bat, beotch, blouze, blowen, brass nail, brasser, brass, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chromo, coaster, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, Covent Garden nun, creature of the night, croshabell, daughter of joy, dollymop, Dutch widow, escort, fille de joie, flap, frail sister, gamester, gay lady, girl of the game, girl rented overnight, GRO, hackney, Haymarket ware, hireling, 'ho, hoer, hook, hooker, hustler, Japayuki-san, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the game, lady of the night, meat puppet, mermaid, mob, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavé, nymph of the pavement, painted lady, Paphian, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro skirt, prossie, prossy, pross, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, pro, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, quail, quene, ribibe, sex labourer, sex worker, skainsmate, skivvy, slit, sodomitess, soiled dove, stem siren, stew, street taco, succubus, tawaif, tib, tom, trick turner, trug, tweak, vice girl, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, woman of easy virtue, woman of ill fame, woman of ill repute, woman of the night, woman of the street, woman of the town, working girl
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A pet dog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: minx otter
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
Used transitively when followed by it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blissom, chamber, colt, gill, harlot, harlotize, minx, rake, rig, slut, trollop, wanton, wantonize
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To make (someone) like a minx; (intransitive) to become like a minx.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, tease, prickteaser
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woman, adult female
History
Etymology
PIE word *ǵhmṓ The origin of the noun is uncertain. The following possible derivations have been suggested: * A variation of minikin (“(obsolete) young person, especially a young woman; small or insignificant person, thing, or amount”) + a variation of -s (suffix forming hypocoristic nouns (nicknames)) (compare minckins, a variant of minikin). * From Dutch mens, mensch (“human being, person; (derogatory, informal) woman”) (obsolete), Middle Dutch minsc, minsce, minsch; or from German Low German minsch, minsk, Middle Low German minsche (“hussy, wench”), all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *manniskaz (“human”, adjective), from *mann- (“human being, person; man”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhmṓ (“earthling”), *men- (“to mind; to think; spiritual activity”), or *mon- (“human being; man”)) + *-iskaz (suffix meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’ forming adjectives). The verb is derived from the noun.
A variant of mink.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: кокетка (koketka) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Bulgarian: хубостни́ца (hubostníca) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Cebuano: igat — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Cebuano: takirub — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Cornish: flownen — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Czech: rozpustilá dívka — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Finnish: heilakka — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Finnish: hupakko — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- French: pimbêche — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Hungarian: (kis) bestia — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Italian: civetta — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Japanese: お侠 (okyan) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Latvian: draiskule — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Macedonian: коке́тка (kokétka) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Portuguese: coquete — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Portuguese: interesseira — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Portuguese: sirigaita — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Russian: дерзкая девчо́нка (derzkaja devčónka) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Russian: прока́зница (prokáznica) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Russian: распу́тница (raspútnica) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Russian: шалу́нья (šalúnʹja) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Spanish: petisuis — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Swedish: markatta — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman
- Ottoman Turkish: فندقجی (fındıkcı) — flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman