hatress

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noun

A female hater.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounhatress (plural hatresses)

plural hatresses

  1. archaicA female hater.

    […] a man-hatress, as clever girls so often are […]

    1893, The Eagle: A Magazine Support by Members of St. John's College, page 176
    2 more examples

    How characteristic, again, of the man-hatress is Nausicaa's attempt to make out that in Ulyssses she had found a man to whom she really might become attached — if there were no obstacle to their union.

    1897, Samuel Butler, The Authoress of the Odyssey, page 145

    Hatress of music and living and art, / Grendel's mother with a deadly drool

    1989, Alan Ansen, Contact Highs: Selected Poems, 1957-1987, page 142

Origin

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