swaness
swaness noun: a female swan.
Noun
swaness (plural swanesses)
- A female swan.
- One thing we will say for the swaness, or she-swan. She makes a lovely mother! She and the cat are our ideal earthly types of the maternal relation. The mere human mother is an awkward thing alongside either of these creatures. To see the swan with her gray cygnets sailing about is not much more in...1873, “Central Park”, in Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., page 685, column 2
- On Thursday we go down to Celbridge, where with memories of Swift and the wretched and foolish Vanessa and in company with a beautiful swan and swaness, which bring their babies to the lawn to be admired and duly fed, I am going to rest and recuperate for the next five weeks and try to remember out...1916, Mrs. Hamilton Norway [i.e., Mary Louisa Norway], The Sinn Fein Rebellion as They Saw It, pages 98–99
- Synonyms:
- pen
Examples of swaness in a sentence
- One thing we will say for the swaness, or she-swan.1873, “Central Park”, in Scribner’s Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Scribner & Co., page 685...
- It was in June, 1922, while Bill was making his toilet that there came out of the west, and landed nearby, one of the most beautiful swanesses that you ever saw.1923 May 17, John Thomson, “Bard of Avon Pens Love Letter For Disconsolate Bachelor Swan: Mayor Thomson Seeks Aid Aid of Commissioner...
- To the four very willing swanesses of Egypt, Mass., Gloomy Gus, the wan swan from California, is just a pain in the neck.1947 April 19, “Non-Necking Swan Swain Pain In Neck of Unpecked Swanees”, in Valley Times, volume XI, number 94, North Hollywood, Calif....
- Some goddamn swan that mates once for life?” “A lot of men do and you can bet it’s what the swaness prefers.”1976, Ilka Chase, Dear Intruder, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 5:
Synonyms of swaness
Forms of swaness
| plural | swanesses |
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Origin of swaness
From swan + -ess.
Questions about swaness
- What does swaness mean?
- Swaness means a female swan.
- How do you use swaness in a sentence?
- One thing we will say for the swaness, or she-swan.
- What part of speech is swaness?
- Swaness is a noun.
- What is the plural of swaness?
- The plural of swaness is swanesses.
Words near swaness in the dictionary
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