nubile: [17] In modern English, nubile is generally used as a facetious synonym for ‘sexy, attractive’, but etymologically it means ‘suitable for marriage’. It comes from Latin nūbilis, a derivative of nūbere ‘take a husband’. This has also given English nuptial [15] and connubial [17], and is related to nymph. => connubial, nuptial, nymph
nubile (adj.)
1640s, "marriageable" (said of a woman), from French nubile (16c.) or directly from Latin nubilis "marriageable," from stem of nubere "take as husband" (see nuptial). In sense of "young and sexually attractive" from 1973. Related: Nubility.
雙語例句
1. Supermodel Jane Bracknel plays a nubile temptress out to seduce him.
超級名模簡·布拉克內爾扮演一個性感女郎來勾引他。
來自柯林斯例句
2. What is this current television obsession with older men and nubile young women?
現在的電視節目為什麽這麽喜歡描寫老男人和妙齡性感女郎的故事呢？
來自柯林斯例句
3. Rich old men often like to be surrounded by nubile young women.
一些上了年紀的富翁總喜歡被到了適婚年齡的年輕女人圍繞。
來自辭典例句
4. They aim their advice squarely at nubile girls who have falsely equated romantic love with happiness.