different between ligress vs digress

English

Etymology

liger +? -ess

Noun

ligress (plural ligresses)

1. A female liger.
   • 1994, Tim May, "Waystation Trying to Save Tigers in Ireland", Los Angeles Times, 6 December 1994:

     Colette has rescued cougars, bobcats, jaguars, panthers, tigers, lions--and even a ligress --a cross between a lion and a tiger.

   • 2008, Brandon Griggs, Utah Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff, Insiders' Guide (2008), ?ISBN, page 128:

     Called Shasta because "she hasta" have this and "she hasta" have that, the bossy liger — she was a ligress, to be more precise — was one of the zoo's most beloved and famous residents before she died in 1972 at the ripe age of twenty-four.

   • 2012, "The rarest big cat in the world needs a normal moggy as her foster mum", The Siberian Times, 11 September 2012:

     There are a number of cases of ligers and ligresses in the world but experts say it is impossible for males to conceive and exceptionally rare for females to give birth.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ligress.

Translations

Anagrams

• Grissel, Siglers, Sligers, grilses

English

Etymology

From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di?gress
• IPA^(key): /da?????s/, /d?????s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

digress (third-person singular simple present digresses, present participle digressing, simple past and past participle digressed)

1. (intransitive) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.

   • Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

   • In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
2. (intransitive) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act 5 Scene 3

     Thy overflow of good converts to bad;
     And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
     This deadly blot in thy digressing son.

Usage notes

Often heard in the set phrase But I digress, where the word behaves as a stative verb, whereas it otherwise patterns as a dynamic verb.

Synonyms

• (turn from the course of argument): sidetrack

Related terms

• digression
• digressive
• excursive

Translations