leprechauness
English edit
Etymology edit
leprechaun + -ess
Noun edit
leprechauness (plural leprechaunesses)
- (rare) A female leprechaun.
- 1993, Barbara Field, Boundary Waters: A Pastoral Farce, page 9:
- I picture Declan's mother as a kind of female Barry Fitzgerald, a leprechauness!
- 2003, Martin Hintz, Irish Milwaukee, page 112:
- Joanne Demster was a regular leprechauness at many early Irish Fests.
- 2016, Dr. David E. Miller, The Dawn of Tomorrow, page 144:
- I tried saying the word leprechauness at least ten times, but she didn't understand until I explained that a leprechauness was a female leprechaun.