Girl

noun girls · gal · guhl · gel · girle · gyrle

1. countable, uncountable A female child. I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.
2. countable, offensive, sometimes, uncountable A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman. He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.
3. colloquial, countable, uncountable A term of address to a female (see usage notes) Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?
4. colloquial, countable, uncountable One's girlfriend. He lucked out with that girl of his. Smart, sweet, sassy, and pretty too.
5. colloquial, countable, uncountable One's daughter. Your girl turned up on our doorstep. She was crying about the argument on the playground. We let her vent.
6. countable, especially, uncountable A female friend.
7. countable, uncountable A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog. Hey, Tricksy, come here, girl! Do you want a treat? Yes, you love those biscuits, don't you! What a good girl! Here's another!
8. childish, countable, uncountable A female (tree, gene, etc). Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
9. countable, informal, uncountable A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of. The old girl ain't as pretty as she once was, but she still purrs like a kitten and still gets out of her own way!
10. countable, uncountable A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes) He assumed that the girls should clean up his giant mess. We straightened out his misconception.
11. US, slang, uncountable Cocaine, especially in powder form. He's the sort of lowlife who snorts coke and refers to it as his girl.
12. countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable A queen (the playing card). Are your sure you want to discard that old girl?
13. UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable A roebuck two years old.
14. countable, obsolete, uncountable A child of any gender.

Similar: babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty, damoiselle, damsel, elrig, frail, gal

verb girls · girling · girled · gal · guhl

1. transitive To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls. Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
2. informal To staff with or as a girl or girls. Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]

proper noun

1. A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle. Firstly, the ancient Chinese noticed that it is in the seventh lunar month of the year when the Ox mansion (牛宿, to which the Star of the Weaving Girl and the Cowherd star belong) and the Girl Mansion (女宿) both appear in the night sky: according to Book of Rites (《禮記》) edited by Confucius, the Girl M