girlie
/ˈɡəːli
/(also girly)
adjective
1often derogatory Characteristic of or appropriate to a girl: girlie pink paper...
- ‘You really couldn't find a more girly girl,’ says her mother.
- I am not a girly girl and am always up for a tomboy adventure
- I have to take on board things such as the fact that Japanese women like pink and girlie, but the Americans are more sophisticated.
2 [attributive] Depicting or featuring nude or partially nude young women in erotic poses: girlie magazines...
- ‘Mr Jackson will freely admit that he does read girlie magazines from time to time,’ he said.
- On rare occasions a housemaster might have to confiscate copies of dubious girlie magazines emanating from Europe or South Africa.
- Perhaps he merely sneaks off to look at girlie magazines and drink with his friends.
noun (plural girlies) informal
A girl or young woman (often used as a term of address): what’s your name, girlie?...
- Surely the bored private school girlies of Canterbury wouldn't have had anything better to do?
- And for all you girlies out there who think you qualify as a geek, check out whether you really do or not here.
- I've invited some of my favorite girlies out to a fabulous jazz bar to help me celebrate, so tonight ought to be lots of fun.
Rhymes
- Washington Square
- washing-up
- washi tape
- Washita River
- washland
- wash leather
- wash one's dirty linen (or laundry) in public
- wash one's hands
- wash one's hands of
- wash one's mouth out (with soap and water)
- washout
- wash out (or wash someone out)
- wash over
- washrag
- wash, rinse, repeat
- washroom
- wash something down
- wash something out
- wash something up
- washstand
- washtub
- wash up
- washy
- wasn't
- wasp