stewardii

stewardii

English

Etymology

Facetiously after the Latin second-declension plural of words in -ius.

Noun

stewardii

1. (humorous or nonstandard) plural of stewardess
   • 1982, William Edmund Butterworth, Moose, the Thing, and Me, p. 117:

     "He's flying all over, all the time. He must have met two thousand stewardesses." "Stewardii," Einstein corrected me.

   • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, p. 13:

     Doc still had to edge his way past a line of "B₁₂"-deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beachtown housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing in the sun, stewardii just in off some high-stress red-eye [...].

   • 2010, Shreveport Times, 15 Aug 2010, :

     'Attendant' sounds like something a horse would have. Or a bathroom. We were stewardesses. Or stewardii, as I preferred.