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nymphet|ˈnɪmfɪt|
[f. nymph n. + -et1.]
a. A young or little nymph.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xi. Argt., Of the Nymphets sporting there In Wyrrall, and in Delamere. 1616Drummond of Hawthornden Poems 2 Whose names shall now make ring The echoes? of whom shall the nymphets sing? 1855Singleton Virgil I. 60 Who could the nymphets sing?
b. A nymph-like or sexually attractive young girl.
1955V. Nabokov Lolita (1959) i. v. 18 Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travellers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as ‘nymphets’. 1959Listener 8 Jan. 63/2 A whole chorus of what the author of Lolita calls ‘nymphets’. 1959Daily Mail 31 Jan. 4/4 He is in the thick of an affair with an idealised nymphet of 20. 1963Spectator 15 Feb. 199 Two nymphets visit him together, he orders them both into his bed. 1971Southerly XXXI. 12 She is..at her first appearance a shameless nymphet of thirteen already indifferent to the number of boys who have enjoyed her favours. 1973J. Di Mona Last Man at Arlington (1974) 51 Most of the ‘sales executives’ had turned out to be eighteen- and nineteen-year-old nymphets.
c. attrib. and Comb. in sense b.
1959Spectator 25 Sept. 406/1 Their ‘baby doll’ outfits had the nymphet look which has been in fashion this summer. 1960Spectator 3 June 804/1 Seems to have convinced herself that..every nymphet gesture..can be repeated again and again with ever-increasing success. 1960Encounter June 86/2 The hero..bails out a nymphet-loving painter. 1971Daily Tel. 27 May 8/4 Mother, a randy alcoholic; father, a seedy, nymphet-chasing Peter Pan. |