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devilette

devilette noun: a female devil.

Noun

devilette (plural devilettes)

  1. (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...2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages 164-165
    Synonyms:
    deviless, she-devil
  2. A little devil.
    Synonyms:
    devilet, deviling

Synonyms of devilette

Forms of devilette

pluraldevilettes

Origin of devilette

From devil + -ette.

Words that rhyme with devilette

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Questions about devilette

What does devilette mean?
Devilette means a female devil.
What part of speech is devilette?
Devilette is a noun.
What is the plural of devilette?
The plural of devilette is devilettes.

Words near devilette in the dictionary

  1. deviled hams
  2. deviless
  3. devilesses
  4. devilet
  5. devilets
  6. devilette
  7. devilettes
  8. devilfish
  9. devilfishes
  10. deviling
  11. devilings

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