fisheress
English
Etymology
From fisher + -ess.
Noun
fisheress (plural not attested) (rare)
- A female fisher.
- 1898, Munsey's Magazine, volume 19, A Pair Fisher Maid.:
- With ribbons and rings and fluffy things / She strolls on the sand slopes brown, / As trig as a yacht and without a spot / On the folds of her creamy gown. / ’Tis scarce the dress of a fisheress, / Yet thus to be arrayed / Is parcel and part of the subtle art / Of this fair young fisher maid. / […] Clinton Scollard.
- 1940, America's Lost Plays, page 183:
- Peter. What! Jennings! That black fish, with the very red and blue gills? / Sarah. Why Peter! Peter Perch! Shame on you, Peter! How dare you give the pious Mr. Simon such scaly names! You see then, I’m watching all your queer fish talk. Bless me! After a bit I shall be taken for a fisheress!
- 1974, Best Sellers, volume 34, page 490:
- The various pieces are gathered from more-or-less scientific treatises and begin, as did Peter Corodimas’ “In Trout Country” (Little, Brown, 1971), with Dame Juliana Berners, that amiable fisheress of the fifteenth century, and come right down to articles in contemporary periodicals.