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girlish
- /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/ UK
- /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/ US
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ
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English girl
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -isch
English -ish
English girlish
From girl + -ish.
adjective more girlish · most girlish
- 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.
- Of or relating to girlhood. 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
