auctioneeress
nounEtymology From auctioneer + -ess.
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Nonstandard A female auctioneer.
- I have little news to tell you, except that Mrs. ⸺, the auctioneeress, if there be such a word, is likely to die, and that the sorrowing widower, in posse, is said to have already made arrangements to take the beautiful (Oh! that I could add prudent) Miss Foote, as her successor.1837, Thomas Ingoldsby, The Ingoldsby Legends; Or, Mirth and Marvels, volume I, Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, published 1856, page 57:
- The square was, as usual of Saturdays, filled on yesterday with auctioneers and auctioneeresses, selling prize candies, horses and perfumes.1871 February 26, The Tennessean, page 4:
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- Mrs. Coy took the platform, and as an auctioneeress, with her glib tongue, ready wit and charming manners, […]1875 October 17, Arkansas Gazette, page 4:
- Tuesday afternoon Maxine Elliott of the Frawley Company appeared as an auctioneeress.1896 July 25, The Wasp, page 6, column 1:
- At Melbourne last week, Miss L. T. White received an auctioneer’s license. She is the first lady auctioneer in Australia. If some horrid man only starts the cry of “a mouse” when she mounts the ostrum, it will be case of “going, going—gone” with the fair auctioneeress.1900 January 20, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, page 13, column 1:
- The Senior girls have been having an Auction of household goods, etc., at Ticknor Hall during the past week. Angie S. Kuhl, Auctioneeress.1902 June 11, Colorado College, The Tiger, volume IV, number 35, page 3, column 2: