valley girl

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Valley Girl¹

noun Valley Girls

  1. Alternative letter-case form of valley girl As entertainment continues to influence the development of language, maybe one day “Shatner commas” and their odd, purposeless positions will become mainstream and the fear of overusing commas will be “refudiated," just “like, like Valley Girls.”

proper noun

  1. Valspeak; the dialect of English stereotypically spoken by valley girls.

Valley girl²

noun Valley girls

  1. Alternative letter-case form of valley girl

valley girl³

Where it comes from

From Valley, short for San Fernando Valley. Popularized by the Frank/Moon Zappa song Valley Girl (1982).

noun valley girls · Valley girl · Valley Girl · valley-girl · Val

  1. US, slang A girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material. She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure
  2. broadly, derogatory, often Any girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl. Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girl

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noun superficial woman

中文山谷女孩 shān gǔ nǚ hái
Portuguêspatricinha, betinha

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@misc{valley_girl_2026,
  title = {valley girl},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/valley%20girl},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}