rabbitess
rabbitess noun: a female rabbit.
Noun
rabbitess (plural rabbitesses)
- A female rabbit.
- You could not call that life, under the humanitarian Tigrocracy, when a Rabbit was gnawed by hunger or the fear of hunger all through a boring life; when the Rabbitesses were taught to think mating ignoble and when in fact it was one long Boredom-cum-Anxiety.1933 December 15, Count [Geoffrey] Potocki of Montalk, “‘Sed Risus Cum Tiger Manebat’ (A Parable […])”, in Seven, numbers 1–8, published 1938–1940, page 25; reprinted Nendeln, Eschen: Kraus Reprint...
- [T]he tigresses have passed through with such triumphant ease. They have massacred their adversaries by margins ranging from 9 and 8 downwards. They are quite merciless, and not in the least frightened of the rabbitesses, if I may so respectfully term them, but knock their heads off accordingly.1938 May 28, Bernard Darwin, “Golf: Ladies at Burnham”, in Country Life […], volume LXXXIII, number 2158, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 561, column 1
Examples of rabbitess in a sentence
- “This is Chirk,” as the gray rabbitess rose, revealing that she too was in the fur, “and Qui’relle, but you can call her Qui’[.]”1997 winter, SilverFox [pseudonym], “A Surprise for Sean”, in Sylverfox [pseudonym; Brian L. Miller], editor, NewFurrottica […], volume 1...
- Bloody Rabbitess—the rabbit the Maya see in the moon, with its ears at Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris—was in her house, that is, there was a lunar halo, meaning rain was coming.2009, Brian D’Amato, chapter 25, in In the Courts of the Sun, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 263:
Forms of rabbitess
| plural | rabbitesses |
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Origin of rabbitess
From rabbit + -ess.
Questions about rabbitess
- What does rabbitess mean?
- Rabbitess means a female rabbit.
- How do you use rabbitess in a sentence?
- “This is Chirk,” as the gray rabbitess rose, revealing that she too was in the fur, “and Qui’relle, but you can call her Qui’[.]”
- What part of speech is rabbitess?
- Rabbitess is a noun.
- What is the plural of rabbitess?
- The plural of rabbitess is rabbitesses.
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