fisheress
fisheress noun: a female fisher.
Noun
fisheress (plural fisheresses)
- A female fisher.
- Fancy again, Lady fisheresses (I appeal to good old Tory young ladies who land big salmon every autumn in or about the Gordon-Richmond estates in Scotland), how much jollier it is to see the monarch of the stream on the grass than to ‘rink’ at Prince’s, or to be carried round Belgravian...1876, Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XXVIII, number 192, Cornhill, London: A. H. Baily & Co., About Several Men Who Went A-Angling, pages 167–168
- With ribbons and rings and fluffy things / She strolls on the sand slopes brown, / As trig as a yacht and without a spot / On the folds of her creamy gown. / ’Tis scarce the dress of a fisheress, / Yet thus to be arrayed / Is parcel and part of the subtle art / Of this fair young fisher maid. / […]...1898, Munsey's Magazine, volume 19, A Pair Fisher Maid.
Forms of fisheress
| plural | fisheresses |
|---|
Origin of fisheress
From fisher + -ess.
Questions about fisheress
- What does fisheress mean?
- Fisheress means a female fisher.
- What part of speech is fisheress?
- Fisheress is a noun.
- What is the plural of fisheress?
- The plural of fisheress is fisheresses.
Words near fisheress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fisheress (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: “fisheress.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fisheress. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.