Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a Suffragette; also attrib.

1912		Day Book (Chicago) 27 Dec. 27/2: Miss Gladys Courson [...] is one of the suffs.
1913		Day Book (Chicago) 1 Mar. n.p.: [headline] ’Tis a Cold, Damp Army of Suffs in Washington and its Reception Didn’t Warm it Any.
1915		Day Book (Chicago) 5 Nov. 21/2: After the vote in New York [...] and Massachusetts is it any wonder the Suffs rage.
1917		Sun (NY) 17 Sept. 4/2-3: Since last November 2, 833,000 pieces of Suff literature have been distributed [...] Election day is only seven weeks off. But the wariest suff leaders [...] believe in short campaigns [...] Locked in her room Miss Hay holds the secret of at which corners the suff orators will burst upon New York tonight.
1918		Sun (NY) 10 Feb. 21/3: Well, men are rather stupid. Off course the Suffs never meant to call that strike.
1920		Star Progress (Opelousas, LA) 10 Apr. 3/3: Suffs and Anti-Suffs to Occupy Centre of Stage on Ratification Issue.