secretaryess

secretaryess

English

Etymology

secretary +‎ -ess

Noun

secretaryess (plural secretaryesses)

1. a female secretary.
   • 1915, John Ames Mitchell, Life, page 1083:

     "Why," defiantly explains the secretaryess of the treasury, "I ran my department just as I ran my home. I have had everything charged.

   • 1930, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 524:

     Well, Mrs. Simpson, you sure are there as press secretaryess for the Ladies Social Club.

   • 2017, Peter D. O'Neill, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, Routledge (→ISBN), page 127:

     At Lost Rosary's conclusion, in a purported conversation with publisher Donahoe, McCorry levels the same accusation at the secretaryess herself: