devilette en · NOUN
Etymology
From devil + -ette.
Meanings
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(humorous, informal) A female devil.
She stuffed a red stocking with newspaper balls. A devil’s tail. She attached it to her posterior with a safety pin, and a memory from a university Halloween Ball cracked on the hard rim of my heart and the yolk dribbled out—she’d dressed like a devilette then, too, she’d put on red face paint, we’d kissed all night, just kissed[…]
2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages 164-165:
- A little devil.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| devilettes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |