English Explanatory Dictionary

sweet thirteen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of bat mitzvah.

Word forms

sweet thirteen sweet thirteens sweet 13

Etymology

From sweet + thirteen. Coined in analogy to sweet sixteen; an Americanization of the Jewish threshold of adulthood time for girls.

Synonyms

bat mitzvah

Related words

sweet fifteen sweet sixteen sweet seventeen quinceanera
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