Definitions

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  • noun The condition of being a girl; girlhood.
  • noun The world or sphere of girls.

Etymologies

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girl +‎ -dom

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Examples

  • So big that I'd be willing to wager that the vast majority of 6-18 year olds in the United States know her name if not her face, and to many of them she's the ultimate celebrity, the epitome of teenage girldom, the star they would most like to meet, to dress like, to be.

    Deborah Levine: An Open Letter to Miley Cyrus's PR Team From the Mom of Two Kids With Almond-Shaped Eyes 2009

  • I took a deep breath and readied myself for my next step into girldom: spilling a giggly secret.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • I took a deep breath and readied myself for my next step into girldom: spilling a giggly secret.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • I took a deep breath and readied myself for my next step into girldom: spilling a giggly secret.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • Lilyfoil + 3 O Books, $12 consists of four sections/poems and is a kind of girl's own that spans--as Treadwell's interests do--across at least two centuries of girldom, from Aphra Behn to Queen Elizabeth.

    Elizabeth Treadwell, Lilyfoil Lemon Hound 2007

  • Lilyfoil + 3 O Books, $12 consists of four sections/poems and is a kind of girl's own that spans--as Treadwell's interests do--across at least two centuries of girldom, from Aphra Behn to Queen Elizabeth.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Lemon Hound 2007

  • I took a deep breath and readied myself for my next step into girldom: spilling a giggly secret.

    The Boys Next Door Jennifer Echols 2007

  • Yes, granny panties are one of the great pleasures of girldom.

    in praise of granny panties « raincoaster 2007

  • He married me when I was 35; I still had one foot securely in girldom.

    CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2001 2001

  • "Probably it is a merciful precaution on the part of our guardian angels, Flip; and, anyhow, you know you like a little variation yourself in the way of bulk, and sound, practical, indecorous chorus girldom."

    Winding Paths Gertrude Page 1897

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