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observeress

noun

Etymology

From observer + -ess.

  1. derived from *ser-✻
  2. derived from observō
  3. derived from observer
  4. derived from observer
  5. formed as observer — “observe + -er”
  6. suffixed as observeress — “observer + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female observer.

    • It was written with a typewriter and contains the announcement “the writer of the within is not a matinee girl, merely an observer of men and things.” It is a gamble, however, that the observer is an observeress.
    • It would be hypercritical to say that Miss [Grace] Elliston overdoes the part just here. But since it is true that such a sensation can be experienced by a crucially interested observeress there must be some ground for it.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for observeress. 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