stewardii

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A form of stewardess — A female flight attendant (a member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers).

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Meanings

noun
  1. humorousnonstandardpluralplural of stewardess

    "He's flying all over, all the time. He must have met two thousand stewardesses." "Stewardii," Einstein corrected me.

    1982, William Edmund Butterworth, Moose, the Thing, and Me, page 117
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    Doc still had to edge his way past a line of "B₁₂"-deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beachtown housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing in the sun, stewardii just in off some high-stress red-eye [...].

    2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 13

    'Attendant' sounds like something a horse would have. Or a bathroom. We were stewardesses. Or stewardii, as I preferred.

    2010 August 15, Shreveport Times

Origin

From steward(ess) + -ii, facetiously after the Latin second-declension plural of words in -ius.

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APA

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Chicago

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