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adj
Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: eligible, marriageable, wifeable
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: foxy, alluring, arousing, attractive, bangable, beautiful, beddable, bedworthy, bonable, bonerific, buff, delicious, desirable, doable, dreamy, effable, fanciable, fappable, fapworthy, fine, fit, fuckable, gorgeous, hittable, horny, hot, humpable, peng, provocative, raunchy, rootable, salacious, screwable, seductive, sensual, sexable, sexalicious, sexy, shaggable, swoonsome, tasty, toothsome
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A woman of marriageable age; a sexually attractive young woman
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
of girls or women who are eligible to marry
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: marriageable
Antonyms: none provided
History
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.
Across languages
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