dwarfess

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A human female dwarf. dated
    — Gibson and his wife were among the best English-born artists of their era. He was just three feet six inches in height; she was a dwarfess of the same proportion. This little couple had nine good-sized children, and having weathered the storms of civil war, lived happily together to old age.
  2. A female of the dwarf race.
    — 1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection, St. Martin's Press, 0-312-04450-X, page 328, Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace.

词形变化

dwarfesses plural dwarvess alternative,rare

词源

Etymology tree
English dwarf
Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor.
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English dwarfess
From dwarf + -ess.
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