deviletteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

devilette (plural devilettes)

1. (informal or humorous) A female devil.

   Synonyms: deviless, she-devil

   • 2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages 164-165:

     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, we’d kissed all night, just kissed […]

2. A little devil.

   Synonyms: devilet, deviling