"stewardii" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Facetiously after the Latin second-declension plural of words in -ius. Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} stewardii
  1. (humorous or nonstandard) plural of stewardess Tags: form-of, plural Form of: stewardess
    Sense id: en-stewardii-en-noun-ec4S-mXU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English miscellaneous irregular plurals

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          "ref": "1982, William Edmund Butterworth, Moose, the Thing, and Me, page 117",
          "text": "\"He's flying all over, all the time. He must have met two thousand stewardesses.\" \"Stewardii,\" Einstein corrected me.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 13",
          "text": "Doc still had to edge his way past a line of \"B₁₂\"-deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beachtown housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing in the sun, stewardii just in off some high-stress red-eye [...].",
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        {
          "ref": "2010 August 15, Shreveport Times",
          "text": "'Attendant' sounds like something a horse would have. Or a bathroom. We were stewardesses. Or stewardii, as I preferred.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 13",
          "text": "Doc still had to edge his way past a line of \"B₁₂\"-deficient customers which already stretched back to the parking lot, beachtown housewives of a certain melancholy index, actors with casting calls to show up at, deeply tanned geezers looking ahead to an active day of schmoozing in the sun, stewardii just in off some high-stress red-eye [...].",
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