minx🔊

A flirtatious, impudent, or pert young woman.

(dated) A promiscuous woman; also, a (t=the other woman in an extramarital relationship) or a prostitute.

(obsolete) A pet dog.

''Used transitively when followed by'' it: to behave like a minx, that is, in a flirtatious and impudent manner.

To make (someone) like a minx; to become like a minx.

(t=any of various semi-aquatic, carnivorous mammals in the Mustelinae subfamily). +