Etymology Inherited from Middle English -ette, borrowed from Old French -ette, from Latin -ittus.
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Diminutive, Morpheme Used to form nouns meaning a smaller form of something.
cigar + -ette → cigarette
disk + -ette → diskette
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kitchen + -ette → kitchenette
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Morpheme Used to form nouns meaning or implying the female equivalent of.
bachelor + -ette → bachelorette
drum major + -ette → drum majorette
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ranger + -ette → Rangerette
smurf + -ette → Smurfette
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Morpheme Used to form nouns meaning an imitation or substitute of something.
leather + -ette → leatherette
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Polari, Morpheme Used to form nouns with a Polari context or an association with gay subculture.
You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.1967, Barry Took, Marty Feldman, “Gaslight Son of Flicker”, in Round the Horne, spoken by Sandy (Kenneth Williams):
'Shame, eh, my little cherry? I was really bonar for him and all. It'll be a lonely old arthur for me tonight as usual. Ah well, let's have another little drinkette then, shall we? And perhaps, Poppett,' he sighed histrionically. 'I'll learn to keep my queeny old polari for them what appreciates it. Or for them what admints^([sic – meaning admits]) it,'2002, Gilda O'Neill, The Sins Of Their Fathers (Eastend Trilogy; 1):
Fiction, Literature, Media, PublishingMorpheme Used to form nouns and adjectives signifying a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color.