Word.ws English Dictionary

duchessed

duchessed is the simple past and past participle of duchess.

Meaning of duchess

Verb

duchess (third-person singular simple present duchesses, present participle duchessing, simple past and past participle duchessed)

  1. (Australia, informal) To court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.
    • On arrival in England he was “duchessed” in a manner that no Australian Prime Minister has ever been “duchessed” before or since. Northcliffe was looking for someone around whom he could build a campaign against Asquith. Hughes filled the bill nicely.1956, John Thomas Lang, I Remember, page 64

See all 4 meanings of duchess

Questions about duchessed

What is duchessed the simple past and past participle of?
Duchessed is the simple past and past participle of duchess.

Words near duchessed in the dictionary

  1. duchessdoms
  2. duchesse
  3. duchesse lace
  4. duchesse laces
  5. duchesse potatoes
  6. duchessed
  7. duchesses
  8. duchesshood
  9. duchessing
  10. duchesslike
  11. duchessly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: duchessed (page history and authors); duchess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “duchessed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/duchessed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.