Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A female tiger.
- noun A woman regarded as daring or fierce.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female tiger.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The female of the tiger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A female
tiger .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female tiger
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Examples
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They had recently been married, that is, the tigress had chosen the tiger as her husband -- for in the jungle it is usually the wife who chooses the husband.
The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two Sarath Kumar Ghosh
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Her mother began to shrivel while Naomi swayed like a tigress.
Lorelei 2010
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Left, a tigress waded through a river in the Sundarbans, near Kolkata, Feb. 24, 2010.
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Maxwell deftly paints Phyllis as the rich, suburban housewife, but makes damn sure we can see the tigress that once ensnared Ben.
Martin Maidenberg: So Much To Love, So Much To Regret Martin Maidenberg 2011
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Maxwell deftly paints Phyllis as the rich, suburban housewife, but makes damn sure we can see the tigress that once ensnared Ben.
Martin Maidenberg: So Much To Love, So Much To Regret Martin Maidenberg 2011
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Her mother began to shrivel while Naomi swayed like a tigress.
Lorelei 2010
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Although compared to Medea, Medusa and Circe, Lumley seems more angry pussycat than classical tigress; but she does deliver Goldman's one-liners with the right snap, crackle and pop, and suggests a devious mind at work.
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The latter even saves the aforementioned speed-dating sequence -- an artifact from a 2000 TV sitcom -- with the line, "Face it, tigress -- you just hit the jackpot."
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There were many of them, and one recent one where a tigress had reached for his shoulder and gone down to the bone.
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Maxwell deftly paints Phyllis as the rich, suburban housewife, but makes damn sure we can see the tigress that once ensnared Ben.
Martin Maidenberg: So Much To Love, So Much To Regret Martin Maidenberg 2011
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The tiger from Kung Fu Panda.
January 30, 2010