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dragonesses

dragonesses is the plural of dragoness.

Meaning of dragoness

Noun

dragoness (plural dragonesses)

  1. (archaic, figuratively, rare) A female dragon.
    • The King Apollo, with an arrow, freed / From his strong string, destroy’d the Dragoness1616, George Chapman, “A Hymn to Apollo”, in The Whole Works of Homer
  2. (especially, slang) A female dragon.
    • But what really catches my attention about this dragoness is her thick tail, which looks to be twice as thick as a normal dragon tail. And I really don't know how to say this, except to say that this dragoness is seriously luscious. Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all...2018, Gabe Hudson, “What a Fitting Place for me to Die, Here in the Belly of the Beast”, in Gork, the Teenage Dragon, page 202
    Synonyms:
    dragonette

Questions about dragonesses

What is dragonesses the plural of?
Dragonesses is the plural of dragoness.

Words near dragonesses in the dictionary

  1. dragondom
  2. Dragone
  3. Dragones
  4. dragonesque
  5. dragoness
  6. dragonesses
  7. dragonet
  8. dragonets
  9. dragonette
  10. dragonettes
  11. dragonewt

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