"robberess" meaning in All languages combined

See robberess on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: robberesses [plural]
Etymology: From robber + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|robber|ess}} robber + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} robberess (plural robberesses)
  1. a female robber.
    Sense id: en-robberess-en-noun-fMdk5PLM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ess

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for robberess meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "robber",
        "3": "ess"
      },
      "expansion": "robber + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From robber + -ess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "robberesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "robberess (plural robberesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ess",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, New-Church Messenger, page 235",
          "text": "I have been brought up to something better, and, sooner than live in a dirty cave and be nothing but a robberess,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Sabine Hake, Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch, Princeton University Press, page 110",
          "text": "What changes take place, one could for instance ask, when a gullible brat (The Doll) or a wild robberess (The Mountain Cat) take over the narrative, or when the fantastic sets are invaded by the spirit of joyful anarchy?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2019, Bill Peschel, The Best Sherlock Holmes Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1930: 223B Casebook Series, Peschel Press\n“Out o' luck,” groaned the robberess. All of a sudden she pointed her weapon at me."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a female robber."
      ],
      "id": "en-robberess-en-noun-fMdk5PLM",
      "links": [
        [
          "robber",
          "robber"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "robberess"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "robber",
        "3": "ess"
      },
      "expansion": "robber + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From robber + -ess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "robberesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "robberess (plural robberesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ess",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, New-Church Messenger, page 235",
          "text": "I have been brought up to something better, and, sooner than live in a dirty cave and be nothing but a robberess,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Sabine Hake, Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch, Princeton University Press, page 110",
          "text": "What changes take place, one could for instance ask, when a gullible brat (The Doll) or a wild robberess (The Mountain Cat) take over the narrative, or when the fantastic sets are invaded by the spirit of joyful anarchy?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2019, Bill Peschel, The Best Sherlock Holmes Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1930: 223B Casebook Series, Peschel Press\n“Out o' luck,” groaned the robberess. All of a sudden she pointed her weapon at me."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a female robber."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "robber",
          "robber"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "robberess"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.