nubile
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/ˈnubaɪl/
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/ˈnubaɪl/ · /ˈnjuːbaɪl/
Definition of nubile
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
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adj
-
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.”
- Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
noun
- A woman of marriageable age; a sexually attractive young woman
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Etymology
From French nubile, from Latin nūbilis (“marriageable”), from nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.
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