vixenry

English

Etymology

vixen +‎ -ry, since 1830s.

Noun

vixenry (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state of being a vixen (salacious woman).
   • 1831, The World of Fashion, page 269:

     "Whom you frightened away with a peal of vixenry!" interrupted Michael.

   • 1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Maid Margaret of Galloway, page 187:

     "There," she said, waving her hand abroad with something of her old mocking vixenry, “go—search the castle. It is yours—by marriage. You will not even find my husband here. He is doing your errands at Douglas Castle."

   • 2013, The Albino Album: A Novel, page 419:

     The other girls were frumpier, more sturdy and heavily made up. These boys must have thought this little darlingo on my lap a perfect vixen, but I knew firsthand the master of vixenry, and was only lightly impressed by the affections of one of her fairy minions.