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Word: twippet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

Divorced. By Sandra Dee, 24, perennial Hollywood teen-age twippet (Take Her, She's Mine, That Funny Feeling); Bobby Darin, 30, nightclub singer (Mack the Knife); on grounds of mental cruelty; after six years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Take Her, She's Mine, adapted from the Broadway play, enunciates a proposition to which any reasonable man would eagerly subscribe: "Girls turn into women." But Jimmy Stewart is not a reasonable man. He plays the doting dad of a teen-aged twippet (Sandra Dee), and like most doting dads he has firmly decided that his little girl is always going to be a little girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bringing Up Father | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

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