The Lolita complex or a person with it; a nymphophile; (especially in otaku culture) a lolicon. · By extension, a young girl who could be the object of such desire; a lolita; also, in fictional contexts, a loli. · Short for ロリータファッション.
köken: Originally a clipping of ロリータ (English Lolita), probably also influenced or reanalysed through ロリコン (< ロリータ・コンプレックス). Early attestations of compounds such as ロリ・キャラ (rori kyara, 1981) and ロリマンガ (rori manga, 1982) show that ロリ was already functioning as an independent clipped form in subcultural usage by the early 1980s.