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tigress|ˈtaɪgrɪs|
(Also 9 tigeress.)
[f. tiger + -ess, after F. tigresse.]
1. A female tiger.
1611Cotgr., Tigresse, a Tigresse, a she Tiger. 1624Massinger Renegado iii. v, If Christians have mothers, sure they share in The tigress' fierceness. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal xv. 278 The Indian tigresses firme peace enjoy. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon II. 117 She turned on him like a tigress at bay.
2. fig. A fierce, cruel, or tiger-like woman: cf. tiger n. 4.
1700Motteux Quix. i. iv. iv. II. 400, I never will give any body reason to call me Tigress and Lioness. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tigress,..a ranting Woman, a cruel Mistress. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. iii. 121 The proper subjugation of the young heiress and tigress.
†b. A vulgarly or obtrusively overdressed woman: cf. tiger 7. Obs.
1836New Monthly Mag. XLVIII. 460 Tigresses, too, shone in a near approach to nudity, in Greek draperies and a Brutus' wig.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tigress-heart, tigress-like adj.
1844L. S. Costello Béarn & Pyrenees II. 341 Adieu, tigress-heart! Shepherdess without affection. 1910Q. Rev. Jan. 13 Started in tigress-like revenge by a lady of quality. |