gunneress

== English == === Etymology === From gunner +‎ -ess. === Noun === gunneress (plural gunneresses) (nonstandard, rare) A female gunner. 1992, Angela Moorjani, Aesthetics Of Loss And Lessness, Springer (→ISBN), page 65: Most strikingly, too, Bellmer's 1937 sculpture, Mitrailleuse en état de grâce (Machine-Gunneress), replaces phallic weapon associations by a voluptuous construct of buttock-head, breasts, and petal-like claws (reproduced in Rubin, Dada 151). 2011, Donald O'Donovan, Tarantula Woman (→ISBN): It was a huge house and several other refugees were also camping with Dr. Umberto, most of them, like me, victims of genitourinary calamities. The retired Israeli machine gunneress with the prolapsed uterus, for example: she dropped her intestines in the toilet one morning. === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “gunneress”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.