deviletten.
/ˌdɛvlˈɛt/, /ˌdɛvᵻˈlɛt/, U.S. /ˌdɛvlˈɛt/, /ˌdɛvəˈlɛt/ A female devil; a wicked or seductive woman.
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1859 Potter Jrnl. (Coudersport, Pa.) 10 Mar. Ladies are called Angelinas, who ought to be Devilettes.
1873 C. G. Leland Eng. Gipsies & their Lang. ix. 149 The girls behaved like moral statues till he appeared, and like quick-silver imps and devilettes for the rest of the sitting.
1920 M. C. Oemler Woman named Smith xiv. 254 ‘This is so sudden!’ murmured Alicia, coyly. ‘Deluding devilette!’ breathed The Author, ‘get thee behind me!’
2004 D. Mitchell Cloud Atlas (U.K. ed.) 167 She'd dressed like a devilette then, too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1859- all the full
- all the fun of the fair
- all the go
- all the long day
- all the long etc
- all the long night
- all the marks of
- all the meantime
- all the mode
- all the more
- all the night
- all the pass of
- all the same
- all the same in a hundred years
- all the same in a hundred years hence
- all the samey
- all the sort of
- all the talents
- all the time
- all the time in the world
- all the trimmings
- all the virtues
- all the way
- all the way down the line
- all the way from —— to