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  • noun Plural form of nymphet.

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Examples

  • The novel, by Vladimir Nabokov, is about a man who has a passion for girls aged between 12 and 14 - creatures for him of mystery and allurement whom he calls nymphets.

    From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics 2012

  • The nymphets from the night before were apparently angels.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2002

  • They actually love nymphets with hydro-cephalic enemies. abb1 says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Ideology at the Box Office 2010

  • One time, a fellow named Lenny called in to a radio show I was on and asked, "Do you have any idea what it's like watching middle-aged men in the movies make it with those gorgeous nymphets?"

    What Makes a Man Attractive? Ph.D. Vivian Diller 2011

  • Male writers are cigar-smoking, plot-driven mechanics with extensive wilderness and medical training, a vast knowledge of bombs, maps on their walls and nymphets coiled around their ankles.

    Discussion: On Sex in Fiction 2009

  • (Many years would pass before I became aware that the author of the "Alice" books was an Oxford mathematician named Charles Dodgson, an eccentric bachelor with a predilection for telling fantastical stories to the young daughters of his Oxford colleagues and photographing them in suggestive and seductive poses evocative of Humbert Humbert's nymphets of a later, less innocent era.)

    Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010

  • Now comes "Let's Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock's Greatest Groupies," a film in which Ms. Des Barres reminisces with other famous ex-nymphets about the band members they bagged in the good old days of the '60s and '70s.

    Rock Bottoms and Bach Nancy deWolf Smith 2010

  • These beauties, these flickers of light, these exquisite nymphets swarm his mind and control his every action.

    Archive 2008-03-01 ____Maggie 2008

  • He went on to say, "Do you have any idea what it's like watching middle-aged men in the movies make it with those gorgeous nymphets?"

    Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: Men Need a 'Lift' Too: Aging Levels the Playing Field 2010

  • (Many years would pass before I became aware that the author of the "Alice" books was an Oxford mathematician named Charles Dodgson, an eccentric bachelor with a predilection for telling fantastical stories to the young daughters of his Oxford colleagues and photographing them in suggestive and seductive poses evocative of Humbert Humbert's nymphets of a later, less innocent era.)

    Joyce Carol Oates's 'In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters': Narrative Magazine 2010

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