ˈSwissessrare. [f. Swiss + -ess.] A female Swiss; a Swiss woman or girl. 1793A. C. Bower Diaries & Corr. (1903) 144 She is a Swissess and speaks pretty broken English.1818Shelley Let.Pr.Wks. 1888 II. 241 A Mr. and Mrs. Hoppner, the gentleman an Englishman, and the lady a Swissesse.