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Dictionary definition of “lumberjill”

lumberjill

n. a female lumberjack. Subjects: English

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Citations: 1937 Alice Hughes Washington Post (Sept. 11) “A Woman’s New York” p. 13: The vogue for bright plaid sport coats is going to brighten up the stands to no end.…Topping the ensemble…will be a gay beret to match; the whole effect being that of a fancy lumber-jill in technicolor! 1940 Clearfield Progress (Pa.) (Aug. 24) “‘Lumberjill’ Does Her Bit” p. 3: Handling tree trunks like this as easy falling off a log for this sturdy British “lumberjill.”…She’s doing her bit for Britain’s defense by taking over a lumberjack’s job. 1984 Ira Berkow New York Times (Nov. 23) “The Gobblers’ Last Stand” p. D15: At Northland College in Wisconsin, the teams are known as the Lumberjacks and the Lumberjills. 2005 Molly Gilmore-Baldwin Olympian (Olymia, Wash.) (June 2) “Forest Festival shows off skills”: The lumberjacks—and, as they are called, lumberjills—will compete in events including cross-cut sawing.

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