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"parents": [],
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"word": "werewolfess"
}
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"Du moyen anglais wolfesse, wolvas, wolvesse.Dérivé de wolf (« loup »), avec le suffixe -ess (« suffixe formant les noms d’animaux femelles »)."
],
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{
"form": "wolfesses",
"ipas": [
"\\ˈwʊl.fɪs.ɪz\\"
],
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"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "wolf",
"raw_tags": [
"un mâle"
],
"source": "form line template 'équiv-pour'"
}
],
"lang": "Anglais",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"pos_title": "Nom commun",
"related": [
{
"word": "wolvess"
},
{
"word": "werewoman"
},
{
"word": "werewolfess"
},
{
"word": "wolfwoman"
}
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{
"ref": "Souls for Sale, 1922, page 384",
"text": "The dog eloped with a white wolfess, and proved a good husband and father until his household was destroyed by relentless man."
},
{
"ref": "Benjamin Appel, Sweet Money Girl: A Gold Medal Original, 1954, page 64",
"text": "“Another day in the George Lawrence Empire. Scene, the fox-trot ballroom. Characters, a wolfess aged forty-two and yours truly.” He rolled his eyes like a woman’s. “Tommy, hold me tight, will you honey?” he whispered in the role of the wolfess. Then the woman’s eyes changed into the sly and sad and abandoned eyes of a homo."
},
{
"ref": "Adam Browne⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, Imperium Lupi, Dayfly Publications, 2017",
"text": "Ahead was a huge door to a walk-in safe, tucked behind in a long, partitioned desk and guarded by a pretty, prim-looking white wolfess in a Politzi-like ALPHA uniform. / Janoah walked over and exchanged salutes. The safe door was ajar, to her surprise. / “Who’s in there?” she demanded of the white wolfess."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Louve (femelle du loup)."
],
"id": "fr-wolfess-en-noun-xAHwt0XB",
"topics": [
"mammalogy"
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{
"ref": "Elizabeth Woodword, Let’s Have a Party, 1946, page 19",
"text": "He’ll enjoy the game, and if he goes into it with his eyes wide open, he won’t be ensnared by any tricks the wolfess plays on him. Not your man. He’s yours!"
},
{
"ref": "Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, 2002, ISBN 978-0-393-34993-1, page 148",
"text": "[…] the types of girls you’re more likely to come across in your dating life.” There was the gold digger, the wolfess, and the catty character, but worst of all was the bad sport: […]"
},
{
"ref": "Elena Sasu, Nicolas Trapateau, Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English, « Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e) », Cambridge Scholars Publishing⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4438-8442-6, page 75",
"text": "The use of -ess(e) to form the nouns of female animals spread after the introduction of lioness and gave rise, by analogy, to the nonce-word dovess. But wolfess, the medieval term for a she-wolf, is now rarely used in Present Day English except to mean a woman that is sexually aggressive."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Femme portée sur le plaisir sexuel."
],
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"slang"
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}
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"zh_pron": "wolfess"
},
{
"ipa": "\\ˈwʊl.fɪs\\"
}
],
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{
"word": "she-wolf"
}
],
"word": "wolfess"
}
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"Dérivations en anglais",
"Lemmes en anglais",
"Mots en anglais issus d’un mot en moyen anglais",
"Mots en anglais suffixés avec -ess",
"Noms communs en anglais",
"anglais"
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"word": "werewolfess"
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],
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"Du moyen anglais wolfesse, wolvas, wolvesse.Dérivé de wolf (« loup »), avec le suffixe -ess (« suffixe formant les noms d’animaux femelles »)."
],
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{
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"\\ˈwʊl.fɪs.ɪz\\"
],
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"plural"
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},
{
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"un mâle"
],
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}
],
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"word": "wolvess"
},
{
"word": "werewoman"
},
{
"word": "werewolfess"
},
{
"word": "wolfwoman"
}
],
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"Exemples en anglais",
"Exemples en anglais à traduire"
],
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{
"ref": "Souls for Sale, 1922, page 384",
"text": "The dog eloped with a white wolfess, and proved a good husband and father until his household was destroyed by relentless man."
},
{
"ref": "Benjamin Appel, Sweet Money Girl: A Gold Medal Original, 1954, page 64",
"text": "“Another day in the George Lawrence Empire. Scene, the fox-trot ballroom. Characters, a wolfess aged forty-two and yours truly.” He rolled his eyes like a woman’s. “Tommy, hold me tight, will you honey?” he whispered in the role of the wolfess. Then the woman’s eyes changed into the sly and sad and abandoned eyes of a homo."
},
{
"ref": "Adam Browne⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, Imperium Lupi, Dayfly Publications, 2017",
"text": "Ahead was a huge door to a walk-in safe, tucked behind in a long, partitioned desk and guarded by a pretty, prim-looking white wolfess in a Politzi-like ALPHA uniform. / Janoah walked over and exchanged salutes. The safe door was ajar, to her surprise. / “Who’s in there?” she demanded of the white wolfess."
}
],
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"Louve (femelle du loup)."
],
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"mammalogy"
]
},
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"Exemples en anglais à traduire",
"Métaphores en anglais",
"Termes argotiques en anglais"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "Elizabeth Woodword, Let’s Have a Party, 1946, page 19",
"text": "He’ll enjoy the game, and if he goes into it with his eyes wide open, he won’t be ensnared by any tricks the wolfess plays on him. Not your man. He’s yours!"
},
{
"ref": "Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, 2002, ISBN 978-0-393-34993-1, page 148",
"text": "[…] the types of girls you’re more likely to come across in your dating life.” There was the gold digger, the wolfess, and the catty character, but worst of all was the bad sport: […]"
},
{
"ref": "Elena Sasu, Nicolas Trapateau, Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English, « Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e) », Cambridge Scholars Publishing⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4438-8442-6, page 75",
"text": "The use of -ess(e) to form the nouns of female animals spread after the introduction of lioness and gave rise, by analogy, to the nonce-word dovess. But wolfess, the medieval term for a she-wolf, is now rarely used in Present Day English except to mean a woman that is sexually aggressive."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Femme portée sur le plaisir sexuel."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"zh_pron": "wolfess"
},
{
"ipa": "\\ˈwʊl.fɪs\\"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "she-wolf"
}
],
"word": "wolfess"
}
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