devilette

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noun

A female devil.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noundevilette (plural devilettes)

plural devilettes

  1. humorousinformalA female devil.
    1 more example

    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[…]

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

    Synonyms: deviless, she-devil

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA female devil.

nounA little devil.

Origin

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APA

devilette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devilette

MLA

“devilette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devilette. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “devilette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devilette.

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