Taskmistress

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  • noun. A woman who imposes tasks, especially burdensome or laborious ones.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A woman who imposes a task, as in a household.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Female equivalent of taskmaster.
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  • noun. a woman taskmaster
  • Word Usage
    "The Project Runway taskmistress is even less well-equipped to playing hidden-camera pranks like Candid Camera's Allen Funt: A bit in which she affixed big fake boogers to her nose was aptly titled "You Think It's Funny, But It's Snot.""
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