pollstress

English

Etymology

From pollster +‎ -ess.

Noun

pollstress (plural not attested)

(rare) female equivalent of pollster
- 1955, Raymond Augustine Bauer, What Foreign Trade Policy Does American Business Want?, Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 7:
  Not everyone who replies to a pretty pollstress cares enough to join an association or to write a letter to his congressman.
- 1955 March 6, Bob Burns, “'Got Time for a Cup?' Nearly EveryBody Does”, in Great Bend Daily Tribune, 79th year, number 177, Great Bend, Kan., page 3, column 2:
  A May Poll survey conducted by pollstress May Hemm found only one store owner in downtown Great Bend who didn’t give a coffee brake^[sic] at any time during the day, (said it was too hard to work out).
- 1993 December 6, Christopher South, “Why I’m in two minds about opinion polls”, in Cambridge Evening News, page 14:
  I saw the opinion poll as a means of encouraging the shopkeepers of Sawston, so I gave the propaganda answer, which rather flummoxed the pollstress since her form made no provision for such an eccentric answer.
- 1998, The Hotline:
  […] introduced, in fairness to Tony Snow): Fox News’ Tony Snow; pollstress Kellyanne Fitzpatrick;
- 2016 August 19, “Conway Brings Conservative Experience”, in The Wall Street Journal:
  A self-described “pollstress” who includes [Donald] Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, as a former client, Ms. [Kellyanne] Conway leveraged her status to help sell herself as an expert on marketing candidates to women.