different between lioness vs tigress

English

Etymology

lion +? -ess.

Noun

lioness (plural lionesses, masculine lion)

1. A female lion (animal).

   Synonym: (idiomatic) queen of beasts

2. A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
   • 1877, The Contemporary Review (volume 29, page 1123)

     The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.

3. (Britain, obsolete, Oxford University slang) A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
   • 1871, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Annals of Oxford (page 305)

     When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]

   • 1888, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford (page 271)

     "Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.

Translations

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Elisons, esloins, insoles, lesions, selions

English

Etymology

From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger +? -ess

Noun

tigress (plural tigresses, masculine tiger)

1. A female tiger; a she-tiger.

Translations

Anagrams

• Griests, Stigers, striges