filibustress

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noun

A woman who filibusters.

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Meanings

nounfilibustress (plural filibustresses)

plural filibustresses

  1. A woman who filibusters.

    […]joy-bells rang in the ears of the dusky filibustress as she struggled for breath.

    1982, George MacDonald Fraser, The Pyrates, page 231
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    She thereby sparked a small argument among veteran Senate gallery-ites about whether she should be called a filibusterer or a filibustress.

    1962, Time Magazine, August 10 1962, page 11

    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!

    2021, “What Have I Done” (0:02:33 from the start), in Curb Your Enthusiasm, season 11, episode 8, Larry David (actor), via HBO

Origin

From filibuster + -ess.

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Translations

French flibustière
  • flibustièrefemale who filibusters
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APA

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Chicago

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