leprechauness

leprechauness

English

Etymology

leprechaun + -ess

Noun

leprechauness (plural leprechaunesses)

1. a female leprechaun
   • 1993 Barbara Field, Boundary Waters: A Pastoral Farce, page 9

     I picture Declan's mother as a kind of female Barry Fitzgerald, a leprechauness!

   • 2003 Martin Hintz, Irish Milwaukee, page 112

     Joanne Demster was a regular leprechauness at many early Irish Fests.

   • 2016 Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144

     I tried saying the word leprechauness at least ten times, but she didn't understand until I explained that a leprechauness was a female leprechaun.