tigress
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger + -ess.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/, /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]tigress (plural tigresses)
- A female tiger; a she-tiger.
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part II, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, March 1927, →OCLC, page 1164, column 1:
- So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.
- 2006 June 10, Stephen Holden, “Fabled Feline Charms, in Fine Working Order”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Indestructibly seductive at 79, this greatest and wittiest of all singing tigresses has lasted even longer on the stage than the original glamorous grandmother, Marlene Dietrich.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]female tiger
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Further reading
[edit]- “tigress”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “tigress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.