girlish

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English

Etymology

From girl +‎ -ish.

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Adjective

girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)

  1. Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
  2. (archaic) Of or relating to girlhood.
    • 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20,
      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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