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taskmistress
[ task-mis-tris, tahsk- ]
noun
- a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- a woman who supervises others' work rigorously.
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Gender Note
See -ess.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of taskmistress1
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This description probably makes Ho sound like a taskmistress – an approachable one, but a drill coach more than the life coach that she is.
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Uncle Clifford is a taskmistress, but she minds her dancers less in the way of a madam than a mother hen.
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Ivana Trump was an immigrant from communist Czechoslovakia and a taskmistress who would not brook dissent.
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Mrs Merkel knows that standing out as Europe’s taskmistress will be resented.
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Ye find it not in luxury nor in gold, Not in the fame nor in the envied sway, For which O willing slaves to custom old, Severe taskmistress, ye your hearts have sold.
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