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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From girl + -ie.
Pronunciation
Noun
girlie (plural girlies)
- (slang) A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.
When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.
- (colloquial) A young girl.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]
- (Internet slang, endearing) A woman or person with feminine traits
K-pop girlie
the girlies are fighting
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Adjective
girlie (comparative girlier, superlative girliest)
- (slang) Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.
1979 December 1, Jil Clark, Holly Near, “Holly Near Sings for a Nuclear-Free Future”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 9:The [women's] community in Japan is very tiny and very lonely. And the way that the word "lesbian" translates into Japanese, it means "women who perform sexual acts together in girlie shows." So when we defined ourselves as lesbians, there was snickering among the women.
- (slang) Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.
2005, Victoria Pade, Tales From Elk Creek, page 76:He said he wasn't paying good money for girlie hair — that's what he called it anytime we wanted to go into town to have a real haircut.