lumberjill
See also: Lumber Jill
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of lumberjack + Jill
Noun
[edit]lumberjill (plural lumberjills)
- (rare) A female lumberjack.
- 2006, Sage Sweetwater, From The Convent To The Rawhide, page 80:
- The Paula Bunyans have permits to cut an area of ponderosa pines for spinning logs on the water with their feet, their lumberjill training for the Lumberjack World Championship.
- 2007, Andrew Vietze, Insiders' Guide to the Maine Coast, Globe Pequot, page 189:
- A world champion lumberjill (as opposed to lumberjack), she can chop, saw, and roll logs with the best of them, ...
- 2010, Lilian Harry, PS I Love You:
- She even felt guilty about the fact that she rather liked this idea of being a lumberjill.
See also
[edit]- Lumber Jill (member of the Women's Timber Corps in World War II)