Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pubescent girl regarded as sexually precocious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little nymph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic A little or young nymph.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
sexually attractive girl or young woman
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sexually attractive young woman
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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(through whose tortured glottis the word nymphet has decisively been lifted into the linguistic mainstream from the minor Jacobean rivulets of Drayton and Drummond), whose speech is effectively spoonerized by the "tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent twilight eyes" of "Haze, Dolores" (to firmly place the child where she belongs -- in a school attendance list):
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Hamlet refers to Ophelia as a nymph ( "Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered"), but she is of marriageable age, whereas a nymphet is another thing altogether.
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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Hamlet refers to Ophelia as a nymph ( "Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered"), but she is of marriageable age, whereas a nymphet is another thing altogether.
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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Hamlet refers to Ophelia as a nymph ( "Nymph, in thy orisons, be all my sins remembered"), but she is of marriageable age, whereas a nymphet is another thing altogether.
Hurricane Lolita 2005
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Because in Humbert's private mythology, Dolly is the "nymphet" Lolita, a creature whose "true nature is not human, but … demoniac," a changeling without family or history, existing on an "intangible island of entranced time," where neither she nor Humbert will ever grow up.
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And she had a crush on a teacher who would probably think she was some kind of nymphet if he knew about it.
Outside In Sommers, Beverly 1990
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"nymphet" to enthrall and transport across state lines.
Histriomastix 2009
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The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes.
From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics 2012
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Lolita is his preferred nymphet, and the book is a record of his disastrous affair with her.
From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics 2012
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I don't think I've seen the cover of any recent magazine aimed at youth that did not involve a scantily clad nymphet staring at the camera, all wide-eyed and pouty-lipped, as if to say, Gee, this is all I know how to do.
A Conversation with Libba Bray about A Great and Terrible Beauty 2010
brtom commented on the word nymphet
from The Crying of Lot 49 ... clearly a nod to Nabokov
December 3, 2006