dragoness

noun
/ˈdɹæɡənɛs/

Etymology

From dragon + -ess.

  1. inherited from draca
  2. inherited from wyrm
  3. derived from δράκων
  4. derived from draco
  5. derived from dragon
  6. inherited from dragoun
  7. suffixed as dragoness — “dragon + ess

Definitions

  1. A female dragon.

    • The King Apollo, with an arrow, freed / From his strong string, destroy’d the Dragoness
    • I will sit on the doorstep like a veritable dragoness and keep intruders off.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dragoness. 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