Wordie: Doxy: Comments

Comment by Bodhi, about 1 month ago

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:10:44 +0000

Oh Ms Rowling, you're a wacky one.

Comment by bilby, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:17:24 +0000

The antibiotic doxycycline is reasonably common. Could it be made from ... you know?

Comment by chained_bear, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:54:28 +0000

It's in Shakespeare. That's where I found it first, I think. Either that or just in the script for the Renaissance Faire I worked at.

Comment by sionnach, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:24:45 +0000

Almost all of the online dictionaries give the 'mistress'-definition for this word; suggested synonyms include concubine, courtesan, odalisque, paramour, chippy, floozy, girl friend, grisette, inamorata,
kept mistress, kept woman, lover, mistress, nymph, nymphet, paramour, playmate, tart, unofficial wife, wanton .

Yet the word heterodoxy suggests there may be more to it than that. And, sure enough, dictionary.com leads with this definition:

noun, plural dox·ies.
1. opinion; doctrine.
2. religious views.

Comment by Tolland, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:44:58 +0000

Just had to say...Firefly rocks. Watch it, those of you who haven't done so already!

Comment by Mercy, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:22 +0000

"Doxy training" I think the term was. Of course I had to figure that out.

Comment by Mercy, 4 months ago

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:16 +0000

I came across the word first in Heinlein's book Friday.

Comment by pterodactyl, 4 months ago

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:51:17 +0000

I, too, learned this word from Firefly. I'm not sure about WordNet's definition, though; I always assumed it just meant prostitute.

Comment by yarb, 5 months ago

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:59:25 +0000

Upstairs bounded the psychologist,
rowed with his doxy, rushed down, said 'damn, DAMN!'...

- Peter Reading, Ménage à Trois, from The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery, 1976

Comment by mikepurvis, about 1 year ago

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:01:07 +0000

Like many great words, brought to my attention through the fine writing of Mr. Whedon. "I'll not be anyone's doxy," insists Saffron, in the Firefly episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds".