tigress

[ tahy-gris ]

noun

1. a female tiger.
2. a woman resembling a tiger, as in fierceness or courage.

tigress

/ ˈtaɪɡrɪs /

noun

1. a female tiger
2. a fierce, cruel, or wildly passionate woman

Word History and Origins

Origin of tigress¹

1605–15; earlier tigresse < French; tiger, -ess

Example Sentences

I ask you now to play upon it; you refuse,  and she paced the room like a caged tigress.

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Somehow the idea is associated in my mind with a wild tigress,—and I, too, must now look like that.

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She glared at me as I entered the cell like a chained tigress.

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Tess, instinct with potent life and rage, wheeled like a tawny tigress furiously upon Frederick and Teola.

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She may have been a reincarnated tigress—in after years there was a man who always declared so—and then again she may not.

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