0 (of a woman) determined and difficult to control, sometimes in an unpleasant way:
She was vixenish, she was selfish, she was dishonest and grasping; but she was religious.
There came a vixenish gleam into the old woman's faded eyes.
And so the vile, vixenish virago wished the cat was dead.
The deacon's wife grew sick, and the vile, vinegar-tongued, vixenish virago said that the deacon was an old brute.
She was in her most vixenish mood, full of life and fight.
She always smiled sweetly when she was feeling particularly vixenish.
Like the shrill biting talk of a vixenish wife, it would have compelled you to "take a little something" by way of dulling your sensibility.
The old lady's eyes assumed a vixenish expression and her smile widened till it was a sly, almost diabolical grin.
