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mistressmind

mistressmind noun: a female mastermind.

Noun

mistressmind (plural mistressminds)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard, possibly, rare) A female mastermind.

Verb

mistressmind (third-person singular simple present mistressminds, present participle mistressminding, simple past and past participle mistressminded)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard, possibly, rare) Of a woman: to mastermind.
    • Moreover, he seems to be the man most likely to arrange for peace in our time, and therefore he is the constant prey of murderous villains who mistress[-]minded by a bosomy femme fatale (Daliah Lavi).1968, Films and Filming, page 49, column 3
    • […] crack Public Relations staff mistress[-]minded by Canadian-born Prudence Emery; […]1971, Fielding’s New Travel Guide to Europe, page 280

Examples of mistressmind in a sentence

  • In Reykjavik on October 24th, a group of ladies with splendid names such as Mrs Gerdur Steinthorsdottir mistressminded a virtually total one-day strike by both housewives and employed women.1975, The Economist, page 44, column 2:
  • Yes, I wanted to find out who was masterminding or mistressminding all of this.1998, Patricia Grace, Baby No-Eyes, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 216:
  • The dictionary is mistressminded by Anne Soukhanov, formerly executive editor […]1998, Language International:
  • Sandie Goodyear, Broadcaster at Heartland FM for ‘mistressminding’ Birds and Words.2001, Robin Hull, Scottish Birds: Culture and Tradition, Mercat Press, →ISBN, page xii:

Forms of mistressmind

Noun
pluralmistressminds
alternative formmistress-mind
Verb
third-person singular presentmistressminds
present participlemistressminding
past participlemistressminded
pastmistressminded

Questions about mistressmind

What does mistressmind mean?
Mistressmind means a female mastermind.
How do you use mistressmind in a sentence?
In Reykjavik on October 24th, a group of ladies with splendid names such as Mrs Gerdur Steinthorsdottir mistressminded a virtually total one-day strike by both housewives and employed women.
What part of speech is mistressmind?
Mistressmind can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of mistressmind?
The plural of mistressmind is mistressminds.

Words near mistressmind in the dictionary

  1. mistresses of the robes
  2. mistresshood
  3. mistressing
  4. mistressless
  5. mistressly
  6. mistressmind
  7. mistressminded
  8. mistressminding
  9. mistressminds
  10. mistresspiece
  11. mistresspieces

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