Which of these are NOT Tigresses?

[rancke]

As the thread title says, which of these names are NOT the names of Tigress Class battleships? (Yes, they all have something dodgy about them).

Also, feel free to propose any name you think would be a good one for a Tigress.


Hans

 

[Gadrin]

Damn no Tigger!

:rofl:

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[Maladominus]

Tigris Africanus

 

[rancke]

Damn no Tigger!

No, because Tigger is the only one, and he's male.


Hans

 

[rancke]

Tigris Africanus

Female great cats, Mal.


Hans

 

[Gadrin]

No, because Tigger is the only one, and he's male.


Hans

Not the one I knew

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[rancke]

Not the one I knew

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Then the name would have been Tiggeress.


Hans

 

[Jame]

Kaur, Sabor, Greymalkin, and they're all perfectly good names for Tigress-class BBs anyway.

After all, I've heard that Kaur is Hindi for "Princess."

 

[rancke]

After all, I've heard that Kaur is Hindi for "Princess."

I heard it meant 'Lioness'.


Hans

 

[Brian Smaller]

Tigris Africanus

What? In Africa?

 

[rancke]

Tigris Africanus

What? In Africa?

Very rare subspecies. All are female and they reproduce parthogenetically.


Hans

 

[Jame]

I heard it meant 'Lioness'.


Hans

Or in whatever-it-is that the Sikhs used. Or something like that. The middle name of one of the actresses on ER, the Indian one, has "Kaur" for a middle name, and I read somewhere that Princess was what it meant.

EDIT: Oh, and why not anti-un-shamelessly take a page from D&D and call it "gynosphinx" or "gynosfinks" instead of "sphinxess?" (Yes, the change in spelling is deliberate, to make anyone who sees it written step back a moment and say "what the heck?!?")

 

[Easterner9504]

Female cats

None of those -ess versions exist in English so unless Anglic mutates to gender specific the words don't exist.

Sphinx in Greek mythology had head of a woman and body of a lion so already is feminine.

Catamount is contraction of catamountain and is alternate for cougar aka mountain lion of North America. Females looking for younger men are called cougars, not cougaress.

Final 3 are not English words per dictionary.com. So may indeed be good.

 

[rancke]

None of those -ess versions exist in English so unless Anglic mutates to gender specific the words don't exist.

I know that. I said every one of them had something dodgy about them, didn't I? I also think that if you work in whatever naval office is responsible for naming their ships and had to come up with 160+ names for female great felinoids, you might be prepared to stretch a point or two. Or half a dozen.

Sphinx in Greek mythology had head of a woman and body of a lion so already is feminine.

I know that and you know that .

Catamount is contraction of catamountain and is alternate for cougar aka mountain lion of North America. Females looking for younger men are called cougars, not cougaress.

Tigresses are not named for female humans.

Final 3 are not English words per dictionary.com. So may indeed be good.

Kaur is (AFAIK) Sikh for Lioness. Sabor is a female lion in the language of Tarzan's great apes. Greymalkin is a female small cat.


Hans

 

[BlackBat242]

A grimalkin is an old or evil-looking she-cat. The term stems from "gray" (the color) plus "malkin", an obsolete term for a cat, derived from the hypocoristic form of the female name Maud.[3] Scottish legend makes reference to the grimalkin as a faery cat which dwells in the highlands.



3. Oxford English Dictionary.