The -s- comes from the Latin accusative plural, which, in the case of masculine and feminine nouns, always ended in S, and which would have been the form most used in everyday speech.

For example, when a form says “number of items”, “items” is plural. Words that can be plural or singular based on the language. International words such as “euro” can be both singular and plural.

There are many nouns with both singular and plural forms, they include;

• Sheep.
• Trout.
• Tuna.
• Tweezers.
• Wheat.
• Wood.
• You.
• Smithreen.

noun plural deer or deers.

(vɪksən ) Word forms: plural vixens. countable noun. A vixen is a female fox.

A vixen is a female fox. Or it can be a woman with a temper. Vixen also gets used frequently in descriptions of female film characters. In this way it doesn’t really mean that the character is bad tempered. As slang, to call someone a vixen means that she’s sexy and flirtatious, a label she may or may not like.

This in turn derives from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ-, meaning ‘thick-haired; tail’. Male foxes are known as dogs, tods or reynards, females as vixens, and young as cubs, pups, or kits, though the latter name is not to be confused with a distinct species called kit foxes.

Why do foxes scream in the night? If you’ve ever heard a pained cry in the dead of night that sounds like a woman screaming, then you’ve probably heard a female fox (or ‘vixen’) letting a male (or ‘dog’) fox know that she is ready to mate (listen here).

Vixen literally refers to a female fox, but it has two very distinctive extended meanings: “a shrew” and “a sexy woman.” How is it that the word took such semantically divergent paths?

On the rare occassion that I do hear women described as “vixen”, it is almost universally meant as a compliment. For example, when interacting with a lover who is very sexy and does not hesitate to take charge in the bedroom (if she lets you make it that far before pouncing).

hen

doe. a female deer, or the female of some other animals such as a rabbit.

The drake is a dragon with four limbs, much like a lizard, although usually far larger in size than the average lizard. A particularly potent example of a drake in the natural world is the Komodo Dragon, a large species of minotaur lizard in Indonesia.

A lioness is a female lion.