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killeress

killeress noun: a female killer.

Noun

killeress (plural killeresses)

  1. a female killer
    • Get out of the way of the killeress." And she, worse than ever leper before, was in solitude in the midst of life. She lived anyhow, slept anywhere, and was never greeted by sign or voice.1869, Le Mesurier Hunt, Peeps at Brittany: The Bretons, and Breton Literature, page 116
    • To begin with, was the Borden double-killer a killer or a killeress — a hatchet-man or a hatchet-woman?1944, The University Review

Forms of killeress

pluralkilleresses

Origin of killeress

From killer + -ess.

Questions about killeress

What does killeress mean?
Killeress means a female killer.
What part of speech is killeress?
Killeress is a noun.
What is the plural of killeress?
The plural of killeress is killeresses.

Words near killeress in the dictionary

  1. killer T cell
  2. killer T cells
  3. killer whale
  4. killer whales
  5. killerball
  6. killeress
  7. killeresses
  8. killerish
  9. killerly
  10. killers
  11. killership

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