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girl friday

girl friday is the alternative form of girl Friday.

Noun (1) capitalized: Girl Friday

Girl Friday

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of girl Friday.

Noun (2) capitalized: girl Friday

girl Friday (plural girl Fridays or girls Friday)

  1. A right-hand woman.

Forms of girl friday

pluralgirl Fridays
pluralgirls Friday
alternative formGirl Friday
alternative formgirl friday

Origin of girl friday

By extension from man Friday, from the character Friday in Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe.

Questions about girl friday

What does girl friday mean?
Girl friday means a right-hand woman.
What is girl friday the alternative form of?
Girl friday is the alternative form of girl Friday.
What part of speech is girl friday?
Girl friday is a noun.
What is the plural of girl friday?
The plural of girl friday is girl Fridays.

Words near girl friday in the dictionary

  1. girl crazy
  2. girl crush
  3. girl crushes
  4. girl dinner
  5. girl dinners
  6. girl friday
  7. girl Fridays
  8. girl friend
  9. girl friends
  10. girl goo
  11. girl grip

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: girl friday (page history and authors); Girl Friday (page history and authors); girl Friday (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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