Scribbleress

Quick meaning: Scribbleress is a noun meaning A female scribbler.

Meaning

A female scribbler.

Example Sentences

I return to my pen to write one other sentence. My father married Mary Lowe a year after my mother’s death. Ah, there John speaks. / “Isola, put down that pen.” / “I won’t.” / “You must.” / “You tyrant!” / “Put it down, you little goose, and come out for a walk. No wife of mine is going to be a scribbleress.”

She [Hillary Clinton] neither tells how it was done nor does she reveal any insider hanky-panky. The complete failure of the gnostic universal healthcare plan of 1,342 pages is dismissed by the scribbleress as an action of virtue: “We were trying to move too quickly on a bill that would fundamentally alter American social and economic policy for years to come.[…]”

We have heretofore spoken of that insolent caricature of Southern women, “Hose of Carolina,” by Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, a Yankee scribbleress, and of her more recent “Qualla,” a gushing story of a trip to the Cherokee region of North Carolina, and of the remarkable absence of honesty, decency, and intelligence among that people, as, indeed, among the inhabitants of Western North Carolina in general.

I sighed. “Doubtless you are right, but I will cling to ‘editor’ and ‘author,’ nevertheless, and repeat the esses only when I fear being laughed at.” / “You will regret it,” groaned my mentor. / “Well, then, will this satisfy you?” said I. “That old tyrant, Grammar, has, by the aid of editors and editresses, critics and criticesses, slain his thousands and tens of thousands of authors and authoresses, scribblers and scribbleresses.”

Word Forms

• scribbleresses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scribess, writeress, thiefess, librarianess, readeress, searcheress.

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