thievess

thievess (plural thievesses)

1. Alternative form of thiefess.
   • 1871 October 13, “News Items”, in S. B. Ryder, editor, Black River Gazette, volume V, number 38, Ludlow, Vt., →OCLC, page [3], column 1:

     New York thievesses pick the pockets of those whom the[y] get to open car windows for them.

   • 1890 March 25, The Minneapolis Journal, 5 o’clock edition, Minneapolis, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 5:

     THIEVESSES IN BREECHES / The Eighth Ward Police Gather in the Chicken Thieves.

   • 1901 January 24, The Montreal Daily Star, last edition, volume XXXIII, number 20, Montreal, Que.: Graham & Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 3:

     The thieves began to see starvation gazing upon them. If nobody came out there would be nobody to rob, and there would soon be no bread for the mouths of the thievesses and little thievelets.

   • 1922 March 19, “‘Receiver’ Sent to Rest […]”, in Truth, number 1,152, Brisbane, Qld., →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

     He was in close touch with thieves and thievesses from all over the city, […]

   • [1933, Leonard Bloomfield, “Morphologic Types”, in Language, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 238:

     Special cases, such as duke : duchess, master : mistress, thief : thievess demand a separate mention.]

   • 1955 September 25, “[New Films Reviewed] ‘Son of Sinbad’”, in The Sun-Herald, Sydney, N.S.W., →OCLC, page 69, column 3:

     The ladies include 40 glamorous thievesses, offspring of Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves—which should give a fair sample of its spasmodically entertaining foolery.

   • 1970, Journal of South Asian Literature, volumes 6–7, East Lansing, Mich.: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 158:

     Here I go, and upon this dark-skinned, pleasant-faced, gentle-spoken, well-imbibed, generously-curved, moistly-perfumed, red-lotus-eyed thievess of my eyes I now nimbly leap and take her to my master.

   • 1973, Henri Guillemin, translated by Harold J. Salemson, “Recertification”, in Joan, Maid of Orléans, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Press, →ISBN, page 223:

     He [John du Lys] told the city fathers that Charles VII had promised him a hundred livres but the Royal Treasurer, either misinformed or dishonest, had given him only twenty; so he was requesting the balance of eighty from the municipality. He got only twelve, and went off with his tail between his legs. The two thieves and their thievess left it at that for the time being.

   • 2005, Patricia Geary, “Bernie”, in Guru Cigarettes, Los Angeles, Calif.: Gorsky Press, →ISBN:

     “Where are the Yanks?” […] “Why, I do not really know,” said the Thievess, herself.