farmerette

[ fahr-muh-ret ]

noun

, Older Use.

1. a girl or woman working on a farm.

Gender Note

See -ette.

Word History and Origins

Origin of farmerette¹

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; farmer + -ette

Example Sentences

She said many of the farmerettes hadn’t even worked on farms prior to the war.

From Washington Times

Within a 2-year period, over 20,000 “farmerettes” of the Women’s Land Army of America replaced male laborers in 42 states.

From Time

The young chicks clustered together in the chicken yard and were driven inside the house by the persuasive “s-sh’s” and waving hands of the concerned farmerettes.

From Project Gutenberg

There were Priscillas in ample skirts, farmerettes in baggy overalls, milkmaids in Mother Hubbards, Pilgrim fathers, sailors, and Chinese in voluminous kimonos.

From Project Gutenberg

This time the double of Mamise was not posed as a farmerette in an English landscape, but as a woman of fashion in a Colonial drawing-room.

From Project Gutenberg