squirreless

plural squirrelesses

1. rareA female squirrel.

   But the most famous lecture of all was announced to be ‘for ladies only,’ and its subject was ‘The Wrongs of Squirrelesses.’

   1871, Susan Coolidge [pseudonym; Sarah Chauncey Woolsey], “Nippie Nutcracker”, in The New Year’s Bargain, London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 162

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   In the month of May I was plump, and my coat was glossy; so it was no wonder that I attracted to me the prettiest of squirrelesses; in short, we became man and wife. […] We don’t have chestnuts at our house; chestnuts half as large as my head, and as brown and glossy as my squirreless’s coat. I thought, what if they should drop one—two! if I could but carry them back home with me! Oh! Squirreless mine, that would be a prize!

   1873 July, [Valérie,] Countess de Gasparin, translated by Guarterick Vere, “The Squirrel’s Story. […]”, in The Powder Magazine, London, →OCLC, pages 103–104

   During his three years’ stay in his present abode he has never held any intercourse with other squirrels, which are numerous hereabout; nor in the sportive springtime has he ever manifested the slightest disposition to gambol with the young squirrelesses in love-play.

   1884 September, Rusticus [pseudonym], “My Neighbors”, in The Golden Era, volume XXXII, number 5, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 297, columns 1–2

   What had brought this to mind, was the pregnancy of Geraldine Fitypatrick Nutter, grey squirreless of this parish. […] Ransid was a typical, cheerful teenage squirrel, into typical, teenage, cheerful squirrelesses, acorn balls and folk songs.

   2014, Peter Asher, Lyrical Mallards, [London]: Austin Macauley Publishers, published 2015, →ISBN, pages 11–12 (When Not to Say Pardon) and 26–27 (Lyrical Mallards)

   The quartermaster, an old Great squirreless, stood at the west edge of the field, shaded by a canvas awning upheld by bracketed poles. […] He would simply pair with the Great beaver or squirreless on his side, then confront Borg from a sunless angle.

   2016 October 18, Amar Mehta, “The Tournament”, in Dispossession (Line of Leera; 1), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN