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doxy
noun as in bawd
noun as in faith
noun as in floozy
Weak match
noun as in mistress
Strongest matches
noun as in paramour
Example Sentences
Mr. Tal- mage, true to the fawning, cringing spirit of ortho- doxy, lauds the living queen and cruelly maligns the genius dead.
All the eyes were glued upon him, and his poor doxy had to be content with a furtive look thrown over a stranger's shoulder.
Then let them know that if they attempt to hinder our sailing hence, we'll hang the doxy first and fight for it after.
I am astonished at it, Aunt Doxy; and it is not true, not a word of it.
His orthodoxy was his doxy, and he cared very little for the doxy of any other man or set of men.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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