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moppet

noun as in youth

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“Ashton’s wards, eh? And what have these three moppets done with my Bertha? They took one of her plumes, see?”

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Her two children, Jackson and Jesse, are scraggly moppets in some scenes and almost adults in others.

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The first half of the movie largely centers on the life that Raphaël makes with Juliette as she grows from a curly-head moppet into a bold young adult who’s at once dreamy and pragmatic.

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Unlike a lot of movie moppets, Leila is neither protagonist nor prop.

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The girl herself has been a vampire for 10 years rather than hundreds, and the boy is an unbearably cute moppet who does magic tricks.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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