Girlish
adj ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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 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 […] ."
- 1 befitting or characteristic of a young girl wordnet
Example
More examples"Her girlish complexion belied the fact that she was over forty."
Etymology
From girl + -ish.
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