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Nymphet

//nɪmˈfɛt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small nymph. obsolete

    "Of the nymphets sporting there In Wyrrall, and in Delamere."

  2. 2
    a sexually attractive young woman wordnet
  3. 3
    A sexually attractive girl or young woman.

    "[…] the fey grace, the elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm that separates the nymphet from such coevals of hers […]"

Etymology

From nymph + -et (“diminutive”), first attested 1612. The second sense was popularized by Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.

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