unicorn bait
Noun
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Noun
unicorn bait (uncountable)
- (slang, humorous) A virgin.
- 1966, David R. Slavitt, Rochelle: or, Virtue Rewarded, Chapman and Hall (1966), page 118 ↗:
- She had turned herself back into a virgin again, with that flair for backwardness of hers. An unusual talent, I thought, but of no particular use - except perhaps in a cat-house, where, by exercising it she might continue to fetch premium prices from customers with a special taste for unicorn bait.
- 2007, Mercedes Lackey, Fortune's Fool, Luna (2007), ISBN 9781426814822, page 120 ↗:
- Who'd marry the Fool? Who'd betroth his daughter to the Fool? The very scorn that made his magic possible also made any kind of a normal life impossible. The only chance to find a woman lay among the magical creatures of the realm…and he wasn't at all sure that he wanted to make that kind of alliance with one of them.
- He stared glumly down at his reflection in the mead, thinking with resignation that he was, in all probability, doomed to live and die as unicorn bait.
- 2010, L. J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Shadow Souls, HarperTeen (2010), ISBN 9780061720819, page 140 ↗:
- He looked at her, startled and a little disappointed. Then he shrugged. "Still unicorn bait," he said.
- 1966, David R. Slavitt, Rochelle: or, Virtue Rewarded, Chapman and Hall (1966), page 118 ↗:
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