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tigress

/tahy-gris/US // ˈtaɪ grɪs //UK // (ˈtaɪɡrɪs) //

虎妞,母老虎,虎妈,雌老虎

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a female tiger.
    • : a woman resembling a tiger, as in fierceness or courage.

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Examples

  • I ask you now to play upon it; you refuse,  and she paced the room like a caged tigress.

  • Somehow the idea is associated in my mind with a wild tigress,—and I, too, must now look like that.

  • She glared at me as I entered the cell like a chained tigress.

  • Tess, instinct with potent life and rage, wheeled like a tawny tigress furiously upon Frederick and Teola.

  • She may have been a reincarnated tigress—in after years there was a man who always declared so—and then again she may not.