girlchild

Noun

girlchild (plural girlchildren)

1. A female child.
   • The male is esteemed "the head of the family;" it belongs to him; he maintains it; and the rest of the world is a wide hunting ground and battlefield wherein he competes with other males as of old. ¶ The girl-child, peering out, sees this forbidden field as belonging wholly to men-kind; and her...1911, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, chapter 2, in The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture
   • She had a baby slung on her back in a shawl, a girl child clinging to her skirts, and a heavy-faced boy plodding behind her.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 5, in Klee Wyck

   Synonyms:

   girl, woman child, maid child, babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty

   Antonyms:

   boychild