Contextualizebeta

auctioneeress

noun

Etymology

From auctioneer + -ess.

  1. borrowed from auctiō
  2. formed as auctioneer — “auction + -eer”
  3. suffixed as auctioneeress — “auctioneer + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female auctioneer.

    • The square was, as usual of Saturdays, filled on yesterday with auctioneers and auctioneeresses, selling prize candies, horses and perfumes.
    • Mrs. Coy took the platform, and as an auctioneeress, with her glib tongue, ready wit and charming manners, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for auctioneeress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA