haress
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
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- 8
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- 6
Definition of haress
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(rare)A female hare.
“Five dollars buys a pedigreed pair of Belgian Hares, […] 28 × 3 = 84 new maidens, all of them haresses.”
“[…] aged hare named Garth flopped on to his psychiatrist’s couch and nervously unburdened himself. […] “I can’t eat or sleep, Doc, and I’ve lost the zest for living. Even sex fails to turn me on like it used to. Why, time was when I could casually knock off a dozen haresses in a day! Now it takes all my verve to oblige ten.””
“While on the subject of Scotty’s famous menu … Marylou Fox has just added her “Scotsman’s Delight?!?!” … Cannelloni made of Veal or Chicken. Open early this year, so all you hares and haresses can hippity-hop (for a quick little pop) down to Scotty’s anytime after that hour.”
“One day, while the Great Spirit rested and slept on a meadow in the woods, the girl stepped off his shoulder and ran across the meadow. She saw a bull following a cow. She saw a stag following a doe. She saw a ram following a ewe. She saw a boar following a sow. She saw a hare following a haress. […] “I am the daughter of the Great Spirit, why is no one following me!””
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From hare + -ess.
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