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English
Etymology
From girl + -ish.
Pronunciation
Adjective
girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)
- Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC: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.
1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., , →OCLC, Act 1: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!
1898, William Watson, “Song”, in The Hope of the World and Other Poems, London: John Lane, page 41:April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!
- (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 .
Derived terms
Translations
like a girl
- Arabic: بَنَاتِيّ (banātiyy)
- Belarusian: дзяво́чы (dzjavóčy), дзяво́цкі (dzjavócki)
- Bulgarian: моми́чешки (momíčeški)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 少女的 (zh) (shàonǚ de)
- Czech: dívčí (cs)
- Dutch: meisjesachtig (nl)
- Esperanto: knabina
- Finnish: tyttömäinen (fi)
- French: de fille (fr), de petite fille (fr), de jeune fille (fr)
- Georgian: გოგოსებური (gogoseburi), ქალიშვილური (kališviluri)
- German: mädchenhaft (de), Mädchen- (de)
- Greek: κοριτσίστικος (el) (koritsístikos)
- Hungarian: lányos (hu)
- Japanese: 女の子らしい (おんなのこらしい, onnanoko rashii)
- Korean: 소녀답다 (sonyeodapda)
- Latin: puellāris
- Latvian: meitenīgs
- Macedonian: момински (mominski)
- Maori: tamahine (mi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: jentete, jenteaktig, pikeaktig
- Polish: dziewczęcy (pl)
- Portuguese: feminino (pt)
- Russian: деви́чий (ru) (devíčij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дѐвојачки, дјѐвојачки
- Roman: dèvojački (sh), djèvojački (sh)
- Slovak: dievčenský
- Slovene: dekliški
- Spanish: de niña (es)
- Turkish: kızsı
- Ukrainian: діво́чий (divóčyj), дівча́чий (divčáčyj), діво́цький (divócʹkyj)
- Yiddish: מיידליש (meydlish)
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