mistressmind

English

Alternative forms

• mistress-mind

Noun

mistressmind (plural mistressminds)

1. (very rare, nonstandard, possibly humorous) A female mastermind.

Verb

mistressmind (third-person singular simple present mistressminds, present participle mistressminding, simple past and past participle mistressminded)

1. (very rare, nonstandard, possibly humorous) Of a woman: to mastermind.
   • 1968, Films and Filming, page 49, column 3:

     Moreover, he seems to be the man most likely to arrange for peace in our time, and therefore he is the constant prey of murderous villains who mistress[-]minded by a bosomy femme fatale (Daliah Lavi).

   • 1971, Fielding’s New Travel Guide to Europe, page 280:

     […] crack Public Relations staff mistress[-]minded by Canadian-born Prudence Emery; […]

   • 1975, The Economist, page 44, column 2:

     In Reykjavik on October 24th, a group of ladies with splendid names such as Mrs Gerdur Steinthorsdottir mistressminded a virtually total one-day strike by both housewives and employed women.

   • 1986, Punch, page 53, columns 3–4:

     The single-minded determination of chief executive Wenche has a lot to do with it too: she is determined we are going to like it, and if her success to date is anything to go by, mistressminding well over half the British bottled water market with Perrier alone, never mind Contrex, Volvic and Vichy which she also looks after, then we probably shall.

   • 1989, Electric Word, page 20:

     […] a superb new greenfield site at Marlow in the Thames Valley, where under the leadership of Lyndon Haddon, senior products development managers are master- and mistressminding the prosaically named Integrated Systems Operations (yes, another ISO).

   • 1993, Hotel & Catering Review, page 15, column 2:

     […] the widespread publicity surrounding the opening was mistressminded by marketing manager Anne Wogan who tells us that the hotel is aiming at the high-spending executive market and independent visitors… […]

   • 1994, Anthony Blond, A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors, Constable & Robinson, published 2008, →ISBN:

     Nero, having failed to arrange a fatal accident for her, had his mother killed but legalized matricide by inventing a conspiracy which she was supposed to have mistress-minded.

   • 1994, Richard P. Batteiger, Writing and Reading Arguments: A Rhetoric and Reader, Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, pages 293–294:

     You knew that Roy E. Black and the two other men who took turns presenting their case and the lone woman at the defense table who never said a word but was probably mistressminding the whole campaign and the lesser lawyers off camera and the rent-by-hour experts who delivered the objective conclusions that benefited the defendant and the anonymous researchers and investigators and all the travel and hotels and who knows what else did not come cheap.

   • 1998, Patricia Grace, Baby No-Eyes, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 216:

     But leaders? Yes, I wanted to find out who was masterminding or mistressminding all of this. Couldn’t see how all this could happen without at least an organising committee.

   • 1998, Language International:

     The dictionary is mistressminded by Anne Soukhanov, formerly executive editor […]

   • 2001, Robin Hull, Scottish Birds: Culture and Tradition, Mercat Press, →ISBN, page xii:

     Sandie Goodyear, Broadcaster at Heartland FM for ‘mistressminding’ Birds and Words.

   • 2007, Alastair Macdonald, The Cyclic Variations and More New Poems, Breakwater Books, →ISBN, page 52:

     A girl (beautiful, casting spells) was mistressminding punt-borne us and breakfast, a Zuleika Dobson of my time.