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Definition of Doxies
1. doxy [n] - See also: doxy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Doxies
Literary usage of Doxies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... addressed to Cotemporary Poets, by John doxies of Hereford, about 1611.* I.
To my worthily much esteemed Friend, Thomas Hawkins,^ Esq. Thou lov'st the ..."
2. A History of Vagrants and Vagrancy, and Beggars and Begging by Charles James Ribton-Turner (1887)
"He may also commi women, which they call doxies, to seme his turne. He hath ;
any market walke, ... working laces and shir name them doxies. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"... and the mention of it gave the ex-dauber an opportunity of introducing some
balaam about his own doxies—no, not his doxies, but his '•' paradoxes. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1834)
"oft' their doxies into the various arbours and alcoves, with which the place
abounded, and began courting with all their might. This was all very well for ..."
5. The Fraternitye of Vacabondes by John Awdelay, Thomas Harman, Haben (1869)
"IT doxies. Note especially all which go ... working laces and shirt stringes,
they name them doxies. ..."
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