deviless

A female devil.

Noun

  1. A female devil.
    • Then I see a sudden scattering of goblins and demons and devilesses in all directions: they run into houses, up alleys, — hide behind door-ways. - 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, Two years in the French West Indies: Volume 3:

Origin

From devil + -ess.

Forms

devilesses

Synonyms

she-devil