Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being girlish; the disposition or manners of a girl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
girlish - noun Girlish behaviour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun being characteristic of a girl
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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The pale pink that dominated the collection added to the girlishness.
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A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.
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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.
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No, I wasn't either-I knew she was a trollop, and her wide-eyed girlishness was a deliberate mockery.
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A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.
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But she looked sad, more real than Ella had ever seen her, all the meretriciousness, the desperate girlishness, gone.
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A red headband fastened her hair, an attempt at girlishness compromised by her halo of gray roots.
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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.
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She has a bold naïveté, a frank girlishness, that serves the group well.
bilby commented on the word girlishness
WordNet 2 is quite well put, I think.
March 3, 2009
strev commented on the word girlishness
as opposed to boylishness
April 2, 2009
sionnach commented on the word girlishness
I don't mind a manly man, nor a womanly woman. But Lord spare me from the sight of a boyly boy.
April 3, 2009
mollusque commented on the word girlishness
Or churlishness.
April 3, 2009