nubile

comparative more nubile · superlative most nubile

1. Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).

   "Pretty little thing, isn't she?" said Mrs. Budge huskily, and panted two or three times. "Yes," Denis nodded agreement. Sixteen, slender, but nubile, he said to himself, and laid up the phrase in his memory as a happy one.

   1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 28, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus, page 292

   Synonyms: eligible, marriageable, wifeable

2. Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).

   Synonyms: foxy, alluring, arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable, bedworthy

plural nubiles

1. A woman of marriageable age; a sexually attractive young woman