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.
双语例句
1. Supermodel Jane Bracknel plays a nubile temptress out to seduce him.
超级名模简·布拉克内尔扮演一个性感女郎来勾引他。
来自柯林斯例句
2. What is this current television obsession with older men and nubile young women?
现在的电视节目为什么这么喜欢描写老男人和妙龄性感女郎的故事呢？
来自柯林斯例句
3. Rich old men often like to be surrounded by nubile young women.
一些上了年纪的富翁总喜欢被到了适婚年龄的年轻女人围绕。
来自辞典例句
4. They aim their advice squarely at nubile girls who have falsely equated romantic love with happiness.