coastguardswoman

English

Etymology

From coastguard +‎ -s- +‎ -woman.

Noun

coastguardswoman (plural coastguardswomen)

1. A female coastguardsman.
   • 1986, Andrew M. Greeley, “Cindasoo”, in Clues: A Journal of Detection, pages 64–67:

     The coast guardsman was a coast guardswoman. Or may I should say coast guardsperson. […] Re-evaluated from the perspective that she was a Coast Guard Woman, C.S. McLeod could be rated cute, even pretty, possibly beautiful, but that would be going too far before I had more data. […] I said something nasty about a teeenage punk coast guard rating from out of the hills couldn’t hide the fact that her ancestors were Irish too an’ they probably came over after Culoden Moor an’ left the true church.

     • 1998, Andrew M. Greeley, The Bishop and the Three Kings, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, pages 15–18:

       The coastguardsman was a coastguardswoman. Or maybe I should say coastguardsperson. […] Reevaluated from the perspective that she was a coastguardswoman, C. L. McCloud could be rated cute, even pretty, possibly beautiful, but that would be going too far before I had more data. […] I said something nasty about how a teenage punk coastguardswoman from out of the hills couldn’t hide the fact that her ancestors were Irish, too, an’ they probably came over after Culloden Moor an’ left the true church.

   • 1988 May 16, Sam Roberts, “Metro Matters; Astrology Quiz: Will the Reagans Hurt Business?”, in The New York Times, section B, page 1, column 1:

     Last year, the police say, a coastguardswoman, despondent over the death of her mother, was persuaded by a gypsy fortuneteller to turn over thousands of dollars of a “cursed” inheritance.

   • 1993, Donald E. Westlake, chapter 22, in Don’t Ask (Dortmunder Novels), New York, N.Y.: The Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 138:

     The five thousand residents—four thousand mostly deskbound Coastguardsmen and Coastguardswomen, plus their families—have their own frequent ferry service over to a slip at Battery Park on Manhattan right next to the Staten Island ferry, but they rarely use it unless they have to.

   • 2004 January 27, Wade Mark, “Supplementation and Variation Bill”, in Senate Debates, page 220:

     At a time, Madam President, when you and I know that in the year 2003, murders were at a record high of 229, kidnappings were over 50 in this country, people are living in fear under the pnm regime, yet still, the Government was unable to complete its recruitment of policemen, policewomen, army personnel, coastguardsmen, coastguardswomen, firefighters and prison officers.

   • 2015 February 25, John Garamendi, President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request for Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Programs: […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office, published 2016, page 3:

     It is irresponsible to subject the Coast Guard to a partial shutdown and ask active-duty coastguardsmen and coastguardswomen to work without pay simply to express a hard-headed disagreement with the administration over immigration policy.

   • 2015 September 30, David Jolly, “TSA Office of Inspection Accountability Act of 2015”, in Congressional Record, volume 161, number 142, Proceedings and Debates of the 114^th Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Publishing Office, page H6737, column 2:

     Our first responders, DHS, coastguardsmen, coastguardswomen, our transportation programs, education, critical healthcare research is all that we will continue to fund through this responsible continuing resolution.