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vampiress

noun

Etymology

From vampire + -ess.

  1. derived from *ōpur✻ — “glutton, witch, evil spirit”
  2. derived from *ǫpyrь✻
  3. derived from vàmpīr//ва̀мпӣр
  4. derived from Vampir
  5. borrowed from vampire
  6. suffixed as vampiress — “vampire + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female vampire.

    • Here, the vampiress personifies righteous indignation, a one-woman lynch mob.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vampiress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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