His and Hers

Posted in Language,Puzzles by Greg Ross on December 14th, 2009

Many masculine nouns can be converted to feminine with a suffix, as HERO-HEROINE and HOST-HOSTESS.

Name a feminine noun that can be converted to masculine with a suffix.

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I was thinking of WIDOW-WIDOWER, but two readers point out that BRIDE-BRIDEGROOM also works if GROOM counts as a suffix.

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