game mistress

plural game mistresses · abbreviation GM · alternative game-mistress · alternative gamemistress

1. A female game master.

   The Game Master/Mistress may lead the Magic Box Game (see Glossary).

   2012, Una McGinley Sarno, “Level III Alphabetic Paraphrase: Lesson Plan Unit Two”, in Learn to Think and Write: A Paradigm for Teaching Grades 4–8, Introductory Levels, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Education, →ISBN, page 66

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   His idea tonight was that he might need a full-time game master—or better, he thought, a game mistress, somebody cute and blond with gold-rimmed glasses. But game sales wouldn’t support a game mistress for long. So there’d have to be a time limit on the game. Say, one year. He pulled out a fresh sheet of paper, sat on his high stool, doodled a bit.

   2000, John Sandford, chapter 10, in Gardner Dozois, editor, Easy Prey (Prey; 11), New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 106

   And actress Zoë Wanamaker, who played Hogwarts’ game mistress Madam Gooch, said Warner Bros. were ‘notoriously mean’ when it came to payment and that she was so insulted by what she termed ‘crap money’ that she declined a deal for three Potter films.

   2014, Sue Blackhall, “The Magic Begins”, in Daniel Radcliffe: The Biography, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, page 18