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cheesemongeress

cheesemongeress noun: a female cheesemonger.

Noun

cheesemongeress (plural cheesemongeresses)

  1. A female cheesemonger.
    • My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongeress’s daughter.1843, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, page 342
    • But, as the cheesemongeress had by this time so far recovered her forces as to be able to undertake the charge of her own offspring, and as the young cheesemonger is at the present moment a vigorous and thriving student at a Clapham boarding school, with every prospect of succeeding honourably to...1860, Charles H[enry] Bennett, Robert B[arnabas] Brough, “Memoir of Miss Juliana Hipswidge. The Infant Prodigy.”, in Shadow and Substance, London: W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), pages 29–30 (1872...

Forms of cheesemongeress

pluralcheesemongeresses
alternative formcheesemongress

Origin of cheesemongeress

From cheesemonger + -ess.

Questions about cheesemongeress

What does cheesemongeress mean?
Cheesemongeress means a female cheesemonger.
What part of speech is cheesemongeress?
Cheesemongeress is a noun.
What is the plural of cheesemongeress?
The plural of cheesemongeress is cheesemongeresses.

Words near cheesemongeress in the dictionary

  1. cheesemeisters
  2. cheesemen
  3. cheesemite
  4. cheesemites
  5. cheesemonger
  6. cheesemongeress
  7. cheesemongeresses
  8. cheesemongeries
  9. cheesemongering
  10. cheesemongers
  11. cheesemongery

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