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filibustress

noun

Etymology

From filibuster + -ess.

  1. derived from vrijbuiter
  2. derived from flibustier
  3. borrowed from filibustero
  4. suffixed as filibustress — “filibuster + ess”

Definitions

  1. A woman who filibusters.

    • She thereby sparked a small argument among veteran Senate gallery-ites about whether she should be called a filibusterer or a filibustress.
    • […]joy-bells rang in the ears of the dusky filibustress as she struggled for breath.
    • I was watching the House of Representatives On C-SPAN and it made me think of you. Then I watched Mr.Smith goes to Washington with Jimmy Stewart, in the filibuster, and I was thinking to myself, I bet Irma would be a great filibustress!

The neighborhood

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