doxy
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Perhaps from Middle DutchCategory:English terms borrowed from Middle Dutch#DOXYCategory:English terms derived from Middle Dutch#DOXY *doketje, diminutive of Middle DutchCategory:English terms derived from Middle Dutch#DOXY docke (“a doll”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#DOXY *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).
Alternative forms
Noun
doxy (plural doxies)Category:English lemmas#DOXYCategory:English nouns#DOXYCategory:English countable nouns#DOXYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOXYCategory:Pages with entries#DOXYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DOXY
- (archaic, Thieves' Cant) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
- 1907, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Needles and pins, page 82:
- He did not relish the apparition of that Katherine, for when it appeared it seemed to bring with it a brother shadow that wore ragged clothes and tangled hair and foul linen, that drank from any flagon and drabbed with any doxy, that slept in tavern angles through hours of drunkenness, a thing whose fingers pillaged, filched, and pilfered when and where they could, a creature that once he saw whenever he stared into a mirror.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- Do you think the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim, had his eyes in the back of his head that he chose the ugliest doxy in all Warwickshire to lie withal?Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
- 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
- However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 328:
- So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.
Noun
doxy (plural doxies)Category:English lemmas#DOXYCategory:English nouns#DOXYCategory:English countable nouns#DOXYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOXYCategory:Pages with entries#DOXYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DOXY
- (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#DOXY) A defined opinion.
- 1759, William Warburton, letter to Lord Sandwich:
- Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
Etymology 3
Clipping. From deoxy-.
Noun
doxy (uncountable)Category:English lemmas#DOXYCategory:English nouns#DOXYCategory:English uncountable nouns#DOXYCategory:English uncountable nouns#DOXYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOXYCategory:Pages with entries#DOXYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DOXY
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#DOXY, pharmacologyCategory:en:Pharmaceutical drugs#DOXY) Clipping of doxycyclineCategory:English clippings#DOXY.
- 1996 May 7, Phyllis Mervine, “Re: Tetracycline”, in sci.med.diseases.lyme (Usenet):
- I know one patient who couldn't take the tabs but could tolerate liquid doxy.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
Etymology 4
Clipping of dachshundCategory:English clippings#DOXY + -yCategory:English terms suffixed with -y#DOXY.
Noun
doxy (plural doxies)Category:English lemmas#DOXYCategory:English nouns#DOXYCategory:English countable nouns#DOXYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOXYCategory:Pages with entries#DOXYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DOXY
Alternative forms
Etymology 5
Coined by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series as the name of a species of biting fairy, possibly originally from Etymology 1 or from Etymology 3 (doxycycline is used to treat various diseases caused by insect bites). Likely influenced by pixie.
Noun
doxy (plural doxies)Category:English lemmas#DOXYCategory:English nouns#DOXYCategory:English countable nouns#DOXYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOXYCategory:Pages with entries#DOXYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DOXY
- (fantasyCategory:en:Fantasy#DOXY) An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.
- 2010 July 15, Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 6:
- "Yeah, but she doesn't usually actively sabotage you."Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
"No worries. I'm used to doxy fairies"
- 2015 March 10, C.T. Adams, The Exile: Book One of the Fae, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 93:
- The doxies were everywhere. So he just kept swinging, feeling a shudder through his arm each time the racquet made contact with a scaly body. Despite his best efforts, two or three of the nasty, screeching things got close.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
- 2021 May 19, Sarah Biglow, Molly Zenk, Captivity The Complete Series: A Dystopian Shifter Fantasy Collection, Biglow & Zenk Fantasy Publishing:
- "And I'm a doxy not a fairy, you complete and utter fuckface."Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
- 2022 October 11, Doug Moench, Aztec Ace: The Complete Collection, Dark Horse Comics, →ISBN, page 139:
- Trapped like this, the options are extremely pitiful and the damned doxies bite the way scorpions sting.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY
- 2023 December 12, Claire Wilkins, Courting the Prince of Moonlit Shadows, eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc., →ISBN:
- A doxy messenger can outfly a pixie by five klicks in optimal conditions. They can span 40 klicks in a little over five hours. Though not particularly good in combat, doxies can turn invisible, kill with a kiss, and cause hallucinations if touched.Category:English terms with quotations#DOXY