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vampirette

noun

Etymology

From vampire + -ette.

  1. derived from *ōpur✻ — “glutton, witch, evil spirit”
  2. derived from *ǫpyrь✻
  3. derived from vàmpīr//ва̀мпӣр
  4. derived from Vampir
  5. borrowed from vampire
  6. suffixed as vampirette — “vampire + ette”

Definitions

  1. A female vampire.

    • The bond with the dead, at once sister and young bride, may give us another perspective on the same-sex eroticism that, all agree, this male writer imagines and creates between the vampirette and her victim.
    • There will be no stores open at midnight for the latest Pinkwater, no nerd swarms, girl gaggles or nerd-girl swaggles, cloaked as wizards or vampirettes, whining at the doors, demanding completion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for vampirette. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA