Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being girlish; the disposition or manners of a girl.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being girlish
- n. Girlish behaviour
WordNet 3.0
- n. being characteristic of a girl
Examples
“The pale pink that dominated the collection added to the girlishness.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Haute Couture, '50s Glamour Meets the Cancan
“Her laugh no longer flashed out so hungrily and her eyes, brimming with the secret he and she had made, deepened and seemed to rejoin the girlishness that had lingered in the other features of her face.”
“Lock brings convincing girlishness and kooky charm to the role of Laura; she's particularly funny in an early scene in which the girl -- dressed in pajamas and a helmet -- pretends to be an astronaut.”
The Washington Post: 'If You Give a Pig a Pancake': Holly Twyford goes hog wild
“But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone.”
“Now that Joel was no longer her patient she could have talked to Eugene about him, described the horror she had felt when this poor man with his dyed yellow hair talked of himself as an angel or a god, and described too the pathetic mother, pared down now to a raw, skinless creature who had grown, in so short a time, from absurd girlishness into her true age.”
“She has a bold naïveté, a frank girlishness, that serves the group well.”
“A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.”
“No, I wasn't either-I knew she was a trollop, and her wide-eyed girlishness was a deliberate mockery.”
“More substantively, now both are forty-something women in an industry largely blind to anyone over thirty, and while each retains a certain girlishness -- Sweeney's breathy, often giggling line delivery, and Sobule's bright, insouciant vocals -- beneath the surface there's nothing gamine about them.”
“I'm a serious gal, I admit it; but I know that giggling girlishness still lingers in me somewhere.”
Sara Avant Stover: Unplug and Recharge: Lighten Up In 6 Easy Steps
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mollusque Or churlishness. Apr 3, 2009
sionnach I don't mind a manly man, nor a womanly woman. But Lord spare me from the sight of a boyly boy. Apr 2, 2009
strev as opposed to boylishness Apr 2, 2009
bilby WordNet 2 is quite well put, I think. Mar 3, 2009