Definition of girlie
1. girl [ n ] a young woman
Examples:
"a young lady of 18"
("Editorials"...)
`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf_Coast '' , the account reads , `` they can count_on heavy opposition from a group of commando trained telephone employees - all girls .
The girls , very fetching in their uniforms , are shown firing rockets from a launcher mounted on a dump_truck ; they are also trained with carbines , automatic weapons , pistols , rifles and other such ladies ' accessories .
(The Providence Journal...)
The answers the girls give struck me as reasonably varied and healthily individual .
To anyone who remembers Newport at its less_than maximum violence , this view of what the boys and girls do in the springtime before they wing north for the Jazz_Festival ought to prove entertaining .
(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)
They were further stripped of old_wives'_tales by seeing the slender , lovely Russian girls performing feats requiring tremendous strength - and with not one bulging muscle .
Synonyms girl young_woman miss young_lady fille missy Related Terms woman baby lass maid Gibson_girl dame working_girl belle flapper peri shop_girl gal sweater_girl Cinderella bimbo rosebud ring_girl soubrette valley_girl tomboy May_queen party_girl mill-girl sex_bomb colleen bachelor_girl2. girl [ n ] a youthful female person
Examples:
"the baby was a girl"
"the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle"
(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)
A teenage girl , Abigail_Williams , is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle , the Reverend_Samuel_Parris , about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings .
A teenage girl , Abigail_Williams , is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle , the Reverend_Samuel_Parris , about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings .
(Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)
He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment , a can of sage `` to make her look_like a girl again '' , and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away .
(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)
At_the_same_time the multiple transvestitism involved - the fat man as girl and as baby , as coquette pretending to be a baby - touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby 's , upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life .
(S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)
First , the Onset Profile spreads across approximately 12 years for boys and 10 years for girls .
Synonyms girl child little_girl female_child Related Terms male_child male_child female schoolgirl sprog girl_scout flower_girl preschooler farm_girl campfire_girl3. girl [ n ] a female human offspring
Examples:
"her daughter cared for her in her old age"
(Irving Fineman, Woman of Valor: The Life of Henrietta...)
Mr._March , like Benjamin_Szold , was a clergyman , although of an indeterminate denomination ; and `` Marmee '' March , like Sophie_Szold , was the competent manager of her brood of girls , of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds ' five .
But the March girls had their counterparts in the Szold girls .
But the March girls had their counterparts in the Szold girls .
Bertha_Szold was more like Meg , the eldest March girl , who `` learned that a woman 's happiest kingdom is home , her highest honor the art of ruling it , not as a queen , but a wise wife and mother '' .
She wrote gay plays about the girls for family entertainments , like `` Oh_,_What_Fun !
Synonyms daughter girl Related Terms son son female_offspring mother's_daughter4. girl [ n ] a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
Examples:
"his girlfriend kicked him out"
(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)
A Yankee sergeant gave the following description of his sweetheart : `` My girl is none of your one-horse girls .
Synonyms girl girlfriend lady_friend Related Terms woman lover5. girl [ n ] a friendly informal reference to a grown woman
Examples:
"Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls"
(Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)
`` I imagine the old girl has n't missed us much '' , Mark added , his eyes on the road .
Synonyms girl Related Terms woman
