subs. (old).—1.  A woman: in contempt; and (2) a harlot. Also MINCKINS.

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  1597–8.  HAUGHTON, A Woman will have her Will, iii. 2 [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, x. 509]. Pis. Why, sauce-box! how now, you unreverent MINX!

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  1598.  FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Magalda, a queane, a harlot, a strumpet, an old trot, a trull or MINXE, a gixie.

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  1600.  Grim, the Collier of Croydon, iii. [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, viii., 436]. Come hither, MINX!

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  1602.  SHAKESPEARE, Othello, iii. 3. 475. Lewd MINX! Come, go with me apart.

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  1604.  MARLOWE, Doctor Faustus, VI. What are you, Mistress MINX.

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  1605.  The London Prodigal, iii. 3. MINCKINS, look you do not follow me.

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  1635.  GLAPTHORNE, The Hollander [PEARSON (1874), i. 129]. Well said MINX.

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  1678.  BUTLER, Hudibras [JOHNSON].

        Of whom, some torches bore, some links,
Before the proud virago-MINX.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. MINKS, a proud Flirt.

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  1691–2.  Gentlemen’s Journal, May, p. 3. ’Twas there this precious MINX agreed to betray this young innocent.

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  1775.  SHERIDAN, St. Patrick’s Day, i. 2. Why, you little provoking MINX.

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