lumberjill

See also: Lumber Jill

English

Etymology

Blend of lumberjack +‎ Jill

Noun

lumberjill (plural lumberjills)

  1. (rare) A female lumberjack.
    • 2006, Sage Sweetwater, From The Convent To The Rawhide, page 80:
      The Paula Bunyans have permits to cut an area of ponderosa pines for spinning logs on the water with their feet, their lumberjill training for the Lumberjack World Championship.
    • 2007, Andrew Vietze, Insiders' Guide to the Maine Coast, Globe Pequot, page 189:
      A world champion lumberjill (as opposed to lumberjack), she can chop, saw, and roll logs with the best of them, ...
    • 2010, Lilian Harry, PS I Love You:
      She even felt guilty about the fact that she rather liked this idea of being a lumberjill.

See also
  • Lumber Jill (member of the Women's Timber Corps in World War II)
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