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schoolgirl|ˈskuːlgɜːl|
[f. school n.1 + girl.]
1. A girl attending school.
1777E. Draper Let. 10 July in N. & Q. (1944) CLXXXVII. 12/2 The pertness, of the consequential School Girl, has given place to softer Manners. 1778F. Burney Evelina I. xi. 36, I did not choose to tell him it [sc. my fear] was owing to my never before dancing but with a school-girl. 1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. ii, Fortune, wearied out with the school-girl's tricks she had been playing me. 1831Macaulay Ess., Boswell's Johnson ⁋5 Every school-girl knows the lines: ‘Scarce had lamented Forbes paid..’. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xiii, You play a little, I see; like any other English school-girl.
2. attrib. and Comb., passing into adj. as schoolgirl complexion, schoolgirl crush, schoolgirl English, schoolgirl French, schoolgirl passion.
1922Woman's Home Compan. Oct. 35 (Advt.), Better than jewels ― that schoolgirl complexion... Choose Palmolive, because its action is soothing. 1924Wodehouse Ukridge x. 241 A man like myself, who finds at least eight hours of sleep essential if that schoolgirl complexion is to be preserved. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock v. ii. 196 The long parade of posters..Guinness is Good for You, Try a Worthington, Keep that Schoolgirl Complexion. 1973A. MacVicar Painted Doll Affair iii. 39 She was an enthusiast for soap and water, as her schoolgirl complexion showed.
1952Schoolgirl crush [see crush n. 2 d]. 1963P. Moyes Murder à la Mode iv. 69 Olwen had a sort of schoolgirl crush on her. 1978C. Storr Winter's End xiii. 143 Bran..wondered what she'd..meant when she'd told Rosey that she loved Philip. A schoolgirl crush? A romantic fantasy?
1939C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 32 Frl. Hippi..speaks schoolgirl English with a slight American accent. 1967W. G. Corp tr. L. Oriol's Short Circuit ii. 11 She spoke a schoolgirl English which nobody could understand.
1909W. J. Locke Septimus iv. 49 ‘Will a hundred francs be of any use to you?’ she asked, in her schoolgirl French. 1977J. Cleary High Road to China iv. 119 Mustafa Kemal said in French,..‘I apologize for not speaking English.’ Eve said..‘I speak only schoolgirl French.’
1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv, Not three in three thousand raw school-girl-governesses would have answered me as you have just done.
1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xvii. 312 You still cherish a romantic schoolgirl passion for him.
1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher (1850) 87 A proper school-girl tone.
Hence ˈschoolgirlhood, the state or condition of being a schoolgirl. ˈschoolgirlism, the action or conduct of a schoolgirl. ˈschoolgirly a., like a schoolgirl, schoolgirlish.
1885Spectator 1010/2 It is all absurdly missish and school⁓girly. 1889‘F. Anstey’ Pariah i. ii, It isn't nearly so school-girly as it used to be, is it? 1893Collingwood Life Ruskin I. 60 Emancipated from schoolgirlhood. 1901Academy 8 June 495/2 Southport, with its sponge-cakeyness and school-girlism is surely worth study. |