Meanings
plural dungeonmistresses
- alternativeAlternative form of dungeon mistress.
o5 can be used everywhere // in the tub / on your dungeonmistress / in a restaurant toilet / right now and here / in doom […]
1999 July 12, tarant8l, “o5 mnemonik^([sic])”, in alt.magick (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Nov 20255 more examples
Kaitlyn Roe, who has acted as an official Dungeonmistress for the last two events, says that the owners “are willing to admit that they don’t know everything” about S/M, and have generally followed the lead of the S/M dyke community in organizing the S/M space.
1992 July 16, Greta Christina, “Ecstasy: Women’s Sex Club Is Open”, in Kim Corsaro, editor, San Francisco Bay Times, volume 13, number 22, San Francisco, Calif.: Coming Up!, →OCLC, page 39, column 4See, Jackie's on the way back with trays of double mochas and bags of Napolean^([sic]) Hats [2], Almond Crescents [3], and chocolate-dipped macaroons [6], when he's set upon by Bill Gates's dungeonmistress ([…])...
1996 February 3, Nick Cuccia, “Do End Users come with Brains”, in bofh.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Nov 2025Sometimes people really don't get bid on. This should be less true at a private party, but at the Vault there were sometimes less-than-tasty fellows who put themselves up for bid. In these cases the dungeonmistresses had money reserves and bid against one another for the person.
1999 May 28, Emma & John, “Slave Auctions”, in soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Nov 2025As for opener Mary Timony, the ex-Helium front woman's lyrics cannily mix dungeonmistress imagery ("The woolly horse of space and time") with personal score-settling ("You showed me a picture of your girlfriend/On the beach without any clothes on/It made me sick").
2002 June 21, “Mike Watt, Mary Timony at the Troubadour”, in LA Weekly, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC; quoted in Kslam, “[Neptunas] More, more, more!”, in alt.music.alternative.female (Usenet), 21 June 2002, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2025Depending on function, since dungeonmasters or dungeonmistresses have many, terms like "Dungeontrainer", "Dungeonadept", or "Dungeonauthority" might have uses ... though none seem to carry an equivalent psycho-social impact.
2006 March 23, SeaHen, quoting Patrick, “Dungeonmasters, dungeonmistresses, and biased language”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Nov 2025
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dungeonmistress. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dungeonmistress
“dungeonmistress.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dungeonmistress. Accessed November 5, 2026.
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