Synonyms for minx

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mingks

Phonetic Transcription : mɪŋks

Définition of minx

Origin : 1540s, mynx "pet dog," later "a young, pert, wanton girl" [Johnson] (1590s), of uncertain origin, perhaps a shortening of minikin "girl, woman," from Middle Dutch minnekijn "darling, beloved," from minne "love" (see minnesinger) + -kijn, diminutive suffix. Klein's sources suggest the word is from Low German minsk "a man," also "an impudent woman," related to German Mensch (see mensch), which also has a sense in vulgar use of "wench, hussy, slut."

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Example sentences :

Every morning you make the thirteen signs of hell over that minx of yours!
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

"Oh, Mistress Polly, you are a minx," said that reverend gentleman.
Extract from : « The Tory Maid » by Herbert Baird Stimpson

Ill look after the minx, and tell her some useful truth now and then, too.
Extract from : « Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 » by Various

It was then Handassah put in a word; the minx was ever ready at that.
Extract from : « Rookwood » by William Harrison Ainsworth

That minx Joan has twisted me round her finger, and you have suffered for it.
Extract from : « Pixie O'Shaughnessy » by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

I believe the very sight of you would make him forget about that minx.
Extract from : « Patsy » by S. R. Crockett

Since the minx had tasted power at Carvel Hall, there was no accounting for her.
Extract from : « Richard Carvel, Complete » by Winston Churchill

She has had the impertinence to get herself up in full evening dress, the minx!
Extract from : « Lancaster's Choice » by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller

New flight; the male rests in the sun, then rejoins the minx.
Extract from : « The Natural Philosophy of Love » by Remy de Gourmont

I did not wish to tell you, madam, but I suspected all along that the minx was an adventuress.
Extract from : « The Twin Ventriloquists » by Old Sleuth

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