valley girl
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See also: Valley Girl and Valley girl
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Etymology
From Valley, short for San Fernando Valley. Popularized by the Frank/Moon Zappa song Valley Girl (1982).
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valley girl (plural valley girls)
- (US, slang) A girl or young woman from San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
- 1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa (lyrics and music), “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch:
- She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure
- 2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
- Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
- (by extension, often derogatory) Any girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.
- 1982 September 15, Ron Alexander, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girls of Long Island, who are sometimes referred to simply as Island Vals.
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superficial woman