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devilettes

devilettes is the plural of devilette.

Meaning of devilette

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

Questions about devilettes

What is devilettes the plural of?
Devilettes is the plural of devilette.

Words near devilettes in the dictionary

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

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