minx
Plural: minxes
Noun
- A pert, impudent, or playful girl or young woman.
- a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.
- A promiscuous woman; also, a mistress (“the other woman in an extramarital relationship”) or a prostitute.
- A pet dog.
- Obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”).
Verb
- Used transitively when followed by it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.
- To make (someone) like a minx; (intransitive) to become like a minx.
Examples
- Her Scrabble opponent was a MINX, always finding mischievous ways to block her best moves.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
coquette, flirt, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper, 'ho, 304, Athanasian wench, Bankside lady, Covent Garden nun, Cyprian, Dutch widow, Essex girl, Fulham virgin, GRO, Haymarket ware, Japayuki-san, KTV girl, LBFM, NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., Paphian, Quicumque vult, Suzi Wong, Suzie Wong, Suzy Wong, abandons, alley cat, alleycat, almah, amoret, amorette, amorosa, article, bangtail, bargirl, bat, beotch, bit on the side, blissom, blouze, blowen, blowsabella, bop, brass, brass nail, brasser, broad, business girl, calico queen, callet, cat, chamber, chippy, chromo, coaster, cockatrice, cockslut, cockwhore, cocotte, colt, comfort girl, comfort woman, commoner, concubine, creature of the night, croshabell, crumpet, cum dumpster, cumguzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, daughter of joy, demimondaine, dollymop, doxy, drab, dulcinea, eager beaver, escort, fille de joie, flap, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, frail sister, fuckstress, gamester, gay lady, geebag, giglot, gill, gillian, girl rented overnight, good-time girl, goomah, grim, grisette, hackney, harlot, harlotize, hireling, ho, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoer, hoochie, hoochie mama, hood rat, hook, hooker, hussy, hustler, jade, jay, jillflirt, karayuki-san, laced mutton, lady of leisure, lady of light virtue, lady of pleasure, lady of the evening, lady of the night, leman, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loon, loose woman, lorette, lot lizard, mab, manizer, meat puppet, meretrix, mermaid, minx, minx otter, mistress, mob, moll, mort wap-apace, mot, mud kicker, mud-kicker, mudkicker, musk cat, mutton, number two, nun, nymph of darkness, nymph of the pavement, nymph of the pavé, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, painted lady, party girl, pavement princess, perdita, pimpette, pretty horsebreaker, priestess of Venus, pro, pro skirt, pross, prossie, prossy, prostie, prostitute, prostitutor, prosty, prozzie, prozzy, public woman, pucelle, puella publica, pug, punk, pussygirl, put, puta, puzzel, quail, quean, quene, quiff, rake, ribibe, rig, scag, scrubber, sex labourer, sex worker, side bitch, side chick, side piece, side ting, skainsmate, skank, sket, skettle, skit, skivvy, slag, slapper, slattern, slit, sloven, slut, slutbag, sodomitess, soiled dove, sprunk, stale, stem siren, stew, streel, street taco, strumpet, succubus, sweet cheeks, tart, tartlet, tawaif, thot, thotty, tib, tom, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trick turner, trollop, trug, trull, tweak, vice girl, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, wantonize, wapping dell, wapping moll, wapping mort, wench, whore, wifelet, 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
Scrabble Score: 13
minx: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordminx: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
minx: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary