Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A little devil; an imp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little devil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A little devil; a devilet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
little devil .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The twins comforted her, holding her in their arms until Eva's devilkin returned to eat her tear-soaked bread.
Christina Heppel Marcelle Heath 2011
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Why, we have been thinking you were a goblin — a devilkin!
Lavengro 2004
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An awful, red-eyed, scrambly fiend scared me -- a real, live, hairy devilkin on stilts.
The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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Whereon a sprightly devilkin seized hurriedly upon his soul and was on the point of bearing it away to Hell, when an angel (mindful doubtless of the abbey's piety) arrived, objecting with a nicely argued piece of logic that the sacristan had not been carried off "en male veie," but before any sin had been committed.
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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"Then you're not quite sure yourself, little devilkin?"
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Then you're not quite sure yourself, little devilkin?"
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897
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"Then you're not quite sure yourself, little devilkin?"
The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Why, we have been thinking you were a goblin -- a devilkin!
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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Why, we have been thinking you were a goblin -- a devilkin!
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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Why, we have been thinking you were a goblin -- a devilkin!
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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