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Girlish

//ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Like (that of) a girl; feminine.

    "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."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to girlhood. archaic

    "1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html 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 […] ."

Adjective
  1. 1
    befitting or characteristic of a young girl wordnet

Etymology

From girl + -ish.

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