girlish
/ˈɡəːlɪʃ
/adjective
Of or characteristic of a girl: girlish giggles...
- As Greg got closer, he could hear girlish giggles coming from the spa area.
- When a woman isn't into a guy or sees him as threatening, she'll hold back her girlish giggle, the researchers add.
- Lance and Wayne barged in with obnoxiously loud voices and girlish giggles.
Synonyms
youthful, childlike, childish, immature;
feminine;
coquettish, flirtatious, kittenish
informal girly, flirty
Derivatives
girlishly
/ adverb ...- She sits, timidly and girlishly moving around on her chair constantly.
- ‘All good things I hope,’ she giggled girlishly.
- A bug scuttled across and she screamed girlishly.
girlishness
/ noun ...- I really believe that a lot of guys picked up on that girlishness and found it extremely sexy in an unconscious way.
- The slightly whiney girlishness that sometimes surfaced unintentionally has been replaced by a confident womanliness, and for the first time you are aware of her extraordinary sexual power.
- We left him there, his head still spinning with thoughts of Minnie, and her delightful, exuberant girlishness.