haress
English
Etymology
Noun
haress (plural haresses)
- (rare) A female hare.
- 1933 November, Wilbur S. Boyer, “A Biggs-Poofer Letter”, in Boys’ Life, New York, N.Y.: Boy Scouts of America, page 13, column 3:
- Five dollars buys a pedigreed pair of Belgian Hares, […] 28 × 3 = 84 new maidens, all of them haresses.
- 1967, Penthouse, volume 3, London; New York, N.Y.: Penthouse Publications Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67:
- […] aged hare named Garth flopped on to his psychiatrist’s couch and nervously unburdened himself. […] “I can’t eat or sleep, Doc, and I’ve lost the zest for living. Even sex fails to turn me on like it used to. Why, time was when I could casually knock off a dozen haresses in a day! Now it takes all my verve to oblige ten.”
- 1975 March 21, Ted Shaker, “Where’s a Good Place to Eat? Your Guide to Peninsula Food, Fun and Entertainment”, in Palo Alto Times, 83rd year, number 69, Palo Alto, Calif., →OCLC, page 14, column 8:
- While on the subject of Scotty’s famous menu … Marylou Fox has just added her “Scotsman’s Delight?!?!” … Cannelloni made of Veal or Chicken. Open early this year, so all you hares and haresses can hippity-hop (for a quick little pop) down to Scotty’s anytime after that hour.
- 1987, Peter Pabisch, “H. C. Artmann”, in Donald G[eorge] Daviau, editor, Major Figures of Contemporary Austrian Literature, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 51:
- One day, while the Great Spirit rested and slept on a meadow in the woods, the girl stepped off his shoulder and ran across the meadow. She saw a bull following a cow. She saw a stag following a doe. She saw a ram following a ewe. She saw a boar following a sow. She saw a hare following a haress. […] “I am the daughter of the Great Spirit, why is no one following me!”