Coastguardswoman
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female coastguardsman.
"The coastguardsman was a coastguardswoman. Or maybe I should say coastguardsperson.[…]Reevaluated from the perspective that she was a coastguardswoman, C. L. McCloud could be rated cute, even pretty, possibly beautiful, but that would be going too far before I had more data.[…]I said something nasty about how a teenage punk coastguardswoman from out of the hills couldn’t hide the fact that her ancestors were Irish, too, an’ they probably came over after Culloden Moor an’ left the true church."
- 2 a female member of a coastguard wordnet
Example
More examples"The coastguardsman was a coastguardswoman. Or maybe I should say coastguardsperson.[…]Reevaluated from the perspective that she was a coastguardswoman, C. L. McCloud could be rated cute, even pretty, possibly beautiful, but that would be going too far before I had more data.[…]I said something nasty about how a teenage punk coastguardswoman from out of the hills couldn’t hide the fact that her ancestors were Irish, too, an’ they probably came over after Culloden Moor an’ left the true church."
Etymology
From coastguard + -s- + -woman.
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