squirreless

English

Etymology

From squirrel +‎ -ess.

Noun

squirreless (plural squirrelesses)

  1. (rare) A female squirrel.
    Hypernyms: squirrel < rodent < mammal < animal < critter, creature
    • 1871, Susan Coolidge [pseudonym; Sarah Chauncey Woolsey], “Nippie Nutcracker”, in The New Year’s Bargain, London: Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 162:
      But the most famous lecture of all was announced to be ‘for ladies only,’ and its subject was ‘The Wrongs of Squirrelesses.’
    • 1873 July, [Valérie,] Countess de Gasparin, translated by Guarterick Vere, “The Squirrel’s Story. […]”, in The Powder Magazine, London, →OCLC, pages 103–104:
      In the month of May I was plump, and my coat was glossy; so it was no wonder that I attracted to me the prettiest of squirrelesses; in short, we became man and wife. […] We don’t have chestnuts at our house; chestnuts half as large as my head, and as brown and glossy as my squirreless’s coat. I thought, what if they should drop one—two! if I could but carry them back home with me! Oh! Squirreless mine, that would be a prize!
    • 1884 September, Rusticus [pseudonym], “My Neighbors”, in The Golden Era, volume XXXII, number 5, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 297, columns 1–2:
      During his three years’ stay in his present abode he has never held any intercourse with other squirrels, which are numerous hereabout; nor in the sportive springtime has he ever manifested the slightest disposition to gambol with the young squirrelesses in love-play.
    • 2014, Peter Asher, Lyrical Mallards, [London]: Austin Macauley Publishers, published 2015, →ISBN, pages 11–12 (When Not to Say Pardon) and 26–27 (Lyrical Mallards):
      What had brought this to mind, was the pregnancy of Geraldine Fitypatrick Nutter, grey squirreless of this parish. […] Ransid was a typical, cheerful teenage squirrel, into typical, teenage, cheerful squirrelesses, acorn balls and folk songs.
    • 2016 October 18, Amar Mehta, “The Tournament”, in Dispossession (Line of Leera; 1), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
      The quartermaster, an old Great squirreless, stood at the west edge of the field, shaded by a canvas awning upheld by bracketed poles. […] He would simply pair with the Great beaver or squirreless on his side, then confront Borg from a sunless angle.
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