tigress

[ tahy-gris ]

noun

1. a female tiger.
2. a woman resembling a tiger, as in fierceness or courage.

tigress

/ ˈtaɪɡrɪs /

noun

1. a female tiger
2. a fierce, cruel, or wildly passionate woman

Word History and Origins

Origin of tigress¹

1605–15; earlier tigresse < French; tiger, -ess

Example Sentences

But Knight, Larraín, and Jolie are all careful to avoid reducing Callas to an over-the-top ableist stereotype or portraying her as the ruthless prima donna tigress the media painted her as.

From Salon

In this Disneynature documentary, filmed over the course of 1,500 days and narrated by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, we get to know one of these creatures: a tigress named Ambar, who protects her cubs from pythons, prowls the forest for food and survives brutal monsoon seasons to roam another day.

From New York Times

Jean Ergas, chief economist of Tigress Financial Partners in New York, points out that oil is almost a binary market, and that the biggest supertankers don’t go through the Red Sea and the Suez Canal in any case.

From New York Times

Sonja Shaw is a devoted mother, motivated by an unstable upbringing to be a tigress when it comes to defending the welfare of her own young daughters and taking on a public school system that has strayed from its educational mission.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr Bhattacharyya's winning image, called The Finest Flower of the Mangroves, shows a young Royal Bengal tigress in its natural mangrove habitat, peering at the photographer.

From BBC