nymphet

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  • Since his youth he had travelled to Paris once a month to spice up his cultural savoir faire with the latest literary novelties, visit museums, and, rumour had it, allow himself a night out in the arms of a nymphet he had christened 'Madame Bovary', even though her name was Hortense and she limited her reading to twenty-franc notes. —  The Shadow of the Wind
  • He couldn't imagine the incorrigible teen Crystal had described either, or the nymphet who had enticed a married man. —  The crush
  • And she had a crush on a teacher who would probably think she was some kind of nymphet if he knew about it. —  Outside In
  • (through whose tortured glottis the word nymphet has decisively been lifted into the linguistic mainstream from the minor Jacobean rivulets of Drayton and Drummond), whose speech is effectively spoonerized by the "tender, mysterious, impure, indifferent twilight eyes" of "Haze, Dolores" (to firmly place the child where she belongs -- in a school attendance list): —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
  • The same way a young nymph is a nymphet, and a young brassy is-" He broke off. —  Up In A Heaval
 

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