girlie
girlie noun: a magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.
Noun
girlie (plural girlies)
- A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.
- When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.
- Synonyms:
- girlie magazine, girlie mag, dirty magazine, fuck book
- A young girl.
- Near-synonyms: baby girl; see also Thesaurus:girl
- And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC
- A woman or person with feminine traits.
- Near-synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl
- K-pop girlie
- Synonyms:
- girlie girl, girly girl
Adjective
girlie (comparative girlier, superlative girliest)
- Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.
- The [women's] community in Japan is very tiny and very lonely. And the way that the word "lesbian" translates into Japanese, it means "women who perform sexual acts together in girlie shows." So when we defined ourselves as lesbians, there was snickering among the women.1979 December 1, Jil Clark, Holly Near, “Holly Near Sings for a Nuclear-Free Future”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 9
- Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.
- He said he wasn't paying good money for girlie hair — that's what he called it anytime we wanted to go into town to have a real haircut.2005, Victoria Pade, Tales From Elk Creek, page 76
- The debut novelist M. A. Larson hails from the world of “My Little Pony,” where he is a writer on the TV show and a frequent presence at events for "Bronies” — boys, teenagers and grown-ups who are into “My Little Pony.” In the way that Bronies co-opted a formerly girlie form and made it unisex...2014 November 9, Julie Klam, “‘Pennyroyal Academy’ and ‘The Princess in Black’”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
Examples of girlie in a sentence
- It takes more than a picture in a girlie magazine for me to get off.
- The nostalgic look mixed with its soft design have the girlies in a chokehold!
- "Thought you'd seen the last of me, dincha, girlie?" Clay Larsson leered down at Shane and me.
Synonyms of girlie
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Forms of girlie
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | girlies |
| alternative form | girly |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | girlier |
| superlative | girliest |
Origin of girlie
From girl + -ie.
Words formed from girlie
Phrases with girlie
Questions about girlie
- What does girlie mean?
- Girlie means a magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.
- What part of speech is girlie?
- Girlie can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of girlie?
- The plural of girlie is girlies.
Words near girlie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: girlie (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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