adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a vixenish or ill-tempered manner.

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1847.  [M. W. Savage], Bachelor of Albany (1848), 174. ‘Barker of the Albany!—is he the man?’ cried the termagant Mrs. Harry, vixenishly and exultingly.

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1880.  Meredith, Tragic Com., xviii. Her mother treated her vixenishly, snubbing her for a word.

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1891.  Baring-Gould, In Troubadour-Land, ii. 28. [He] endeavoured to get hold of her hand. She snatched it away vixenishly.

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