girlish
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/
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/ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/ · /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/
Definition of girlish
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
“She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.”
“Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!”
“April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!”
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adj
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Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
“She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.”
“Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!”
“April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!”
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(archaic)Of or relating to girlhood.
“1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .”
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Etymology
From girl + -ish.
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