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girlish, a.|ˈgɜːlɪʃ|
[f. girl n. + -ish1.]
Of or pertaining to a girl or to girlhood; characteristic of or like a girl.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Puellaris, propre to girles..girlish. 1596Drayton Leg. i. 937 She.. To other speech, and Girlish laughter fell. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 682 These chaplets of flowers be girlish gaudes. 1788Burns Let. to Mrs. Dunlop 16 Aug., An old grand-uncle, with whom my mother lived a while in her girlish years. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 200 Girlish feeling prompts this anticipation of satisfaction. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. xxvii, She had been very foolish and ignorant in her girlish time. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 3 Walter was..more girlish than either of the others.
Hence ˈgirlishly adv., ˈgirlishness.
1623Cockeram, Puellaritie, Girlishnesse. 1727Bailey vol. II, Girlishly, like a Girl. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. II. 279 Thou art still girlishly fond of those dried cherries! 1833Browning Pauline 231 Autumn has come—like Spring returned to us, Won from her girlishness. 1875A. R. Hope My School-boy Fr. 164 The elegance and girlishness for which we laughed at Philip. 1885M. Pattison Mem. 123 Of all beyond I was girlishly ignorant. |