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.
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Her mother began to shrivel while Naomi swayed like a tigress.
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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.
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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.
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Her mother began to shrivel while Naomi swayed like a tigress.
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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.
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word tigress
The tiger from Kung Fu Panda.
January 30, 2010