wolfess
英語
编辑替代寫法
编辑- wolvess (罕用)
字源
编辑名詞
编辑wolfess (複數 wolfesses)
- 雌狼
- 1922, Souls for Sale，第 384 頁:
- The dog eloped with a white wolfess, and proved a good husband and father until his household was destroyed by relentless man.
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- 1947, It Started in Ravenswood，第 225 頁:
- “Yes, they got here hours ago, just about the time you went prowling around like a wolf, they were supposed to come tomorrow, but I guess they changed their minds on the date.” / “Wolf, am I?” Jack laughed, taking the hint belatedly. “Well, maybe I am, and you are the wolfess I’m after. Woof, woof, I am coming after you.” / Anna backed away feigning fear, then laughed.
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- 1954, Benjamin Appel, Sweet Money Girl: A Gold Medal Original，第 64 頁:
- “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.
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- 1956, The New Yorker，第 28 頁，第 3 列:
- In the crowd that welcomed him home, consisting of about eleven creatures, for all the others were hiding under beds, there was a speed-crazy young wolfess, with built-in instantaneous pickup ability, and in no time at all the wolf and his new-found mate were setting new records for driving upside down, backward, blindfolded, handcuffed, and cockeyed, doubled and redoubled.
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- 1963, New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews，第 327 頁，第 3 列:
- Allyn Ann McLerie slinks skillfully as cat and wolfess; Richard Hayes struts smoothly as “The Stork Who Married a Dumb Wife;” Kaye Ballard unleashes her lush voice, and Bert Convy and Nancy Haywood exploit their youthful vitality in numerous guises.
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- 1971, Daniel Cohen, A Natural History of Unnatural Things，第 46 頁:
- To prove the truth of his story, the werewolf, “using his claw as a hand, drew off the pelt from the head of the wolfess and folded it back even as far down as the navel, whereupon there was plainly to be seen the body of an old woman.”
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- 1973, Roman Art in West Coast Collections，第 49 頁:
- The dispute between Romulus and Remus, resulting in the death of Remus at the hands of Romulus, purportedly took place during their search for a new city-site to be situated near the place where they were suckled and saved by a wolfess when abandoned as infants.
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- 1979, David Knox, Exploring Marriage and the Family，第 45 頁:
- Once upon a time there was a pretty young wolfess who was happy and carefree. She liked to flirt with all the young wolves, go to rabbit runs, and sleep till noon. She enjoyed all the nice things that young, carefree wolfesses do.
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- 2017, Adam Browne, Imperium Lupi, Dayfly Publications:
- 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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- (俚語，比喻義) 有侵略性的女人；肉食性女子。
- 1946, Elizabeth Woodward, Let’s Have a Party，第 19 頁:
- 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!
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- 1947, Betty Betz, The Betty Betz Party Book，第 16, 55 頁s:
- The hostess who invites only the gals whom she thinks she can outshine in looks and conversation, so that she’ll be queen of the ball, will swiftly win the reputation of having only female goons and creeps at her parties. Boys also duck the wolfess who manages to invite five men to every girl so that, although all of the frails enjoy a dizzy whirl, most of the men just stand around talking to one another. […] Keep your wolfess tactics away from a school dance or party, especially when they’re aimed at somebody else’s date.
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- [2015, “Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e) (by Elena Sasu and Nicolas Trapateau)”, 出自 Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change: From Old to Middle English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, 5. The fate of words ending in -ess(e): 3. Lexical revival，第 75 頁:
- 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.
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