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siress

noun

Etymology

From sir + -ess. Piecewise doublet of seigneuress.

  1. derived from senior — “older, elder”
  2. derived from sire — “master, sir, lord”
  3. inherited from sir
  4. suffixed as siress — “sir + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female sir.

    • At dinner the first night, with all the lords and ladies, sirs and siresses, I was sensational.
    • >Sir Doctress Neutopia (neut...@external.umass.edu) / PS: Siress, surely.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for siress. 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