tigress

[ tahy-gris ]

/ ˈtaɪ grɪs /

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noun

a female tiger.

a woman resembling a tiger, as in fierceness or courage.

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Origin of tigress

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

Words nearby tigress

tiglic acid, tiglon, tigon, TIGR, Tigré, tigress, tigridia, Tigrinya, Tigris, tigrish, TIG welding

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How to use tigress in a sentence

I ask you now to play upon it; you refuse, and she paced the room like a caged tigress.
The Fifth String |John Philip Sousa
Somehow the idea is associated in my mind with a wild tigress,—and I, too, must now look like that.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman
She glared at me as I entered the cell like a chained tigress.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852|Various
Tess, instinct with potent life and rage, wheeled like a tawny tigress furiously upon Frederick and Teola.
Tess of the Storm Country|Grace Miller White

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

British Dictionary definitions for tigress

tigress

/ (ˈtaɪɡrɪs) /

noun

a female tiger

a fierce, cruel, or wildly passionate woman

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