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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

nymphetry en · NOUN

Etymology

From nymphet + -ry.

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, uncountable) The state of being a nymphet.
    • Of the rest, none had any claims to nymphetry except Eva Rosen. Avis was a plump lateral child with hairy legs, while Mona, though handsome in a coarse sensual way and only a year older than my aging mistress, had obviously long ceased to be a nymphet, if she ever had been one. 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita: