minx

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minx englannista suomeksi

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minx englanniksi

A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.
(RQ:Nashe Pierce Penilesse)
(RQ:Congreve Love for Love)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Debrett|John Debrett,(nb...)|year=1792|section=act IV, scene ii|page=56|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/fugitivecomedy00richiala/page/n71/mode/1up|oclc=1118148936|passage=''Miſs Herbert''. So good, Mr. gallant, gay Lothario of ſixty-five, a good morning to you. ''Exit. Miſs Herbert.'' / ''Old Manly''. A ſaucy minx.
(RQ:Dickens Nicholas Nickleby)
(RQ:Melville Pierre)
(RQ:Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford)
(quote-book)|year=1895|page=111|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gxBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111|oclc=926056876|passage=Others were pert little minxes, and were amusingly condescending to their friends and relatives; but when it came to the feast all the innocent little airs and graces were left aside, and the saucy tapo enjoyed her pig and yams as naturally as the hungriest boy there.
(RQ:Mitchell Gone with the Wind)
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(quote-book)'s ''(w)'' reveal themselves as minxes.
A promiscuous woman; also, a (l) or a prostitute.

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(RQ:Whetstone Rocke of Regard)
(RQ:Shakespeare Othello Q1) this is ſome minxes token, and I muſt take out the worke; there, giue it the hobby horſe, whereſoeuer you had it, I'le take out no worke on't.
(RQ:Burton Melancholy)|partition=3|section=3|member=1|subsection=2|page=469|url=https://archive.org/details/2319035R.nlm.nih.gov/page/n568/mode/1up|passage=If thou be abſent long, thy wife then thinkes, / Th'art drunke, at eaſe, or with ſome pretty minkes, / 'Tis well with thee, or elſe beloued of ſome, / Whil'ſt ſhee poore ſoule doth fare full ill at home.
(RQ:Dryden Kind Keeper)
(quote-book)|chapter=Money. A Fragment of an Intended Parody.|title=The Shrubs of Parnassus. Consisting of a Variety of Poetical Essays, Moral and Comic|location=London|publisher=(...) Newbery|John Newbery,(nb...)|year=1760|page=142|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0U8CAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA142|oclc=3491109|passage=He to his ardent love ſhall win the fair, / From beauty's queen, to her who ſcrubs the ſtair, / From the Kept-miſtreſs, or the Counteſs vain, / Down to the tawdry Minx in Drury Lane.
(quote-book)|year=1864|section=section I (Pallas Athené and Venus at Breakfast with Juno, in One of Her Apartments)|page=12|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cs9LAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA12|oclc=560031042|passage=For my part, if I understand these sphinxes, / These living riddles called Olympian Gods, / I think they are in love with mortal minxes; / (It would not be the only time by odds;) (..)
(RQ:Joyce Finnegans Wake) would come next or nigh him, (..)
(quote-book) I quickly swapped them with a pair of ELDEST's teeny-weeny ones, so he thinks he might be marrying into a family of sex minxes who stay that way well into middle age.
A pet dog.
(RQ:Erasmus Udall Apophthegmes)'', the passage “does not correspond closely to anything in Erasmus’s text”.
''Used transitively when followed by'' it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.
(quote-book)|year=1861|page=102|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVm7Iikzcp8C&pg=PA102|oclc=30085811|passage=He knows the dress of every girl he meets— / In fact could cut you out the very plan, / Each article could name, and tell you every shade, / Whether adorning minxing miss or ancient maid!
(quote-book), minxing it around Manhattan.
To make (someone) like a minx; to become like a minx.
(obsolete spelling of). (defdate)

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(quote-book) J. Monk|year=1771|page=240|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cK5gAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA240|oclc=923950169|passage=The ''Minx'' (..) frequents the water like the Otter, and very much reſembles it in ſhape and color, but is leſs; will abide longer under the water than the muſk quaſh, muſk rat, or little beaver: (..)
(RQ:Audubon Ornithological Biography)|page=401|passage=Many of these birds are destroyed by Weasels and Minxes.
(quote-book)|location=Hartford, Conn.|publisher=J. H. Mather & Co. ''et al.''|year=1847|page=39|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQYyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA39|oclc=1029910079|passage=2d. ''Carnivora'', or flesh eaters. Of these we have (..) the New York ermine, or ermine weasel; the mink, or minx otter; the common otter; (..)
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