What does it mean when a girl is referred to as a Lolita??

Question

I always thought Lolita was a spanish girl's name, so when a girl is called a Lolita, what does that mean?
I live in australia, i'm guessing this Lolita name calling is an american thing

Answer 1

Lolita was book written by Valdamir Nabokov (I think thats how u spell it). About a 40 year old man who falls in love and seduces a 12 year old girl. They end up having a sexual relationship which spans about 4-5 years.

Usually when someone is called a Lolita it refers to a young girl who is sexually attractive to a much older man (or woman.. u never know in this day and age?). And also connotes that that girl is also interested in that person.

Although the novel was about a white American girl, the Spanish sounding name was given as an exotic nickname to the girl in the novel by her seducer.

Yeah.. so the name usually has sexual connotations and also incestual connotations because the man in also meant to be Lolita's father .. although they are not blood related.

Answer 2

The American Heritage College Dictionary defines 'Lolita' as

Lolita n. An adolescent girl regarded as seductive.

The dictionary goes on to say that is derived from Lolita, heroine of "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov

Answer 3

Lolita, Lola are shorts for Dolores.
Lolita is popular because of the book of the same name, written by the Russian author Vladimir Nabokov.
The story of a middle-age man's love to a thirteen years old girl. Kind of Pedophilia

Answer 4

Lolita is from a novel about a pretty young girl that was quite the teaser and sometimes rather loose with her sexual feelings, if you know what I mean, If I were female I wouldn;t want to be called a lolita

Answer 5

Dont know the xact details, but i know Lolita comes from a story about a VERY young girl (whos named Lolita) getting involved in a relationship with an older man.
You Will also from time to time hear the frase : "Lolita complex", witch refer es to an older man falling in love (or getting obsessed) with a teenage girl...............


And when i was writing this, AND filling out forms to answer first, ALL these answers was written... And I was the first one to answer at the time! ;-D...

Answer 6

Young teenage girl treated as an object of desire. Lolita - Title and name of character in the 1958 novel by Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) about a precocious schoolgirl seduced by an older man; by 1960 the name was in widespread fig. use.

Answer 7

Yes, Lolita comes from Lola, which is a Spanish name.
The famous US writer Vladimir Nabokov wrote a book titled Lolita and ever since a "Lolita" is synonymous with a precocious young girl, that is seductive, but is not aware of it herself.
For more info go to: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nabokov.htm

Answer 8

It comes from a Russian novel that was made into several different movies over the years. The one I know of is Stanley Kubrick's version. Lolita was a sexy young girl, about 14 I think, who was sought after in a romantic relationship by an older, about 30 years older than her, tenant of her mother. She ends up in a relationship with him, and leaves him for another older man, and eventually gets married to someone her own age.

But it is used to refer to a very, flirtatious girl who is underage of consent, but is desired by older men.

Answer 9

Its from a book called "Lolita" by Vladamir Nabokov about an older man who is obssessed by his girlfriend's nubile daughter. It was made into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962.

Answer 10

The reference is to the novel by the same name written by Vladimir Nabokov. It was later filmatised.

The term is used about an underage, but sexually very attractive girl.

Read more about the background and the plot of the novel here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita