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vampirette

vampirette noun: a female vampire.

Noun

vampirette (plural vampirettes)

  1. A female vampire.
    • The bond with the dead, at once sister and young bride, may give us another perspective on the same-sex eroticism that, all agree, this male writer imagines and creates between the vampirette and her victim.1999, Laurence A. Rickels, The vampire lectures, page 161
    • There will be no stores open at midnight for the latest Pinkwater, no nerd swarms, girl gaggles or nerd-girl swaggles, cloaked as wizards or vampirettes, whining at the doors, demanding completion.2009 April 12, Larry Doyle, “Iggy in Underland”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    vampiress, vampirina

Synonyms of vampirette

Forms of vampirette

pluralvampirettes

Origin of vampirette

From vampire + -ette.

Questions about vampirette

What does vampirette mean?
Vampirette means a female vampire.
What part of speech is vampirette?
Vampirette is a noun.
What is the plural of vampirette?
The plural of vampirette is vampirettes.

Words near vampirette in the dictionary

  1. vampires
  2. vampires' teabags
  3. vampiresque
  4. vampiress
  5. vampiresses
  6. vampirette
  7. vampirettes
  8. vampirey
  9. vampireyness
  10. vampiric
  11. vampirical

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