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thiefess en · NOUN

Etymology

From thief + -ess.

Meanings

1. A female thief.
   • a sure sign that I like you is that I braved your breakfast table instead of slipping out like a thiefess in the night 2005, Karlo Mila, Dream Fish Floating, Huia Publishers, →ISBN:
   • The editor of the last-named paper wrote a letter to the "New York Tribune," in which he accused Lucy Larcom of being "a literary thiefess," and claimed the "stolen goods." 1894, Daniel Dulany Addison, Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary, page 63:
   • Aren't you ashamed of being a thiefess?' 1948, Millie Toole, Our Old Man: A Biographical Portrait of Joseph Toole, page 106:

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