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pretendress

noun

Etymology

From pretender + -ess.

  1. derived from praetendo — “to put forward, hold out, pretend”
  2. derived from pretendre
  3. derived from pretendre
  4. formed as pretender — “pretend + -er”
  5. suffixed as pretendress — “pretender + ess”

Definitions

  1. female pretender

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pretendress. 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