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lumberjill

lumberjill noun: a female lumberjack.

lumberjill: a female lumberjack
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Noun

lumberjill (plural lumberjills)

  1. (rare) A female lumberjack.
    • The Paula Bunyans have permits to cut an area of ponderosa pines for spinning logs on the water with their feet, their lumberjill training for the Lumberjack World Championship.2006, Sage Sweetwater, From The Convent To The Rawhide, page 80
    • A world champion lumberjill (as opposed to lumberjack), she can chop, saw, and roll logs with the best of them, ...2007, Andrew Vietze, Insiders' Guide to the Maine Coast, Globe Pequot, page 189

Forms of lumberjill

plurallumberjills

Origin of lumberjill

Blend of lumberjack + Jill.

Questions about lumberjill

What does lumberjill mean?
Lumberjill means a female lumberjack.
What part of speech is lumberjill?
Lumberjill is a noun.
What is the plural of lumberjill?
The plural of lumberjill is lumberjills.

Words near lumberjill in the dictionary

  1. lumberjacket
  2. lumberjacketed
  3. lumberjackets
  4. lumberjacking
  5. lumberjacks
  6. lumberjill
  7. lumberjills
  8. lumberless
  9. lumberly
  10. lumberman
  11. lumbermen

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