Usually means: Mischievous, flirtatious woman; often playful.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. minx: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. minx: Merriam-Webster
  3. minx: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. minx: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. minx: Collins English Dictionary
  6. minx: Vocabulary.com
  7. Minx, minx: Wordnik
  8. minx: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. minx: Wiktionary
  10. minx: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. minx: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. minx: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Minx, minx: Dictionary.com
  14. minx: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. MINX (band), MINX (musician), MinX, Minx (DC Comics), Minx (Leatherface album), Minx (Toyah album), Minx (band), Minx (comics), Minx (magazine), Minx, The Minx: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Minx: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. minx: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. minx: Rhymezone
  19. Minx: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. minx: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. minx: FreeDictionary.org
  22. minx: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Minx: The Word Detective
  24. minx: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minx: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MINX: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.
noun:  (derogatory, dated) A promiscuous woman; also, a mistress (“the other woman in an extramarital relationship”) or a prostitute.
noun:  (obsolete) A pet dog.
verb:  (ambitransitive) Used transitively when followed by it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.
verb:  (transitive) To make (someone) like a minx; (intransitive) to become like a minx.
noun:  obsolete spelling of mink (“any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily”).. [(plural mink or minks) Any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily, similar to weasels, with dark fur, native to Europe and America, of which two species in different genera are extant: the American mink (Neovison vison) and the European mink (Mustela lutreola).]

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