girling
girling is the present participle and gerund of girl.
Meaning of girl
Verb
girl (third-person singular simple present girls, present participle girling, simple past and past participle girled)
- To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
- Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, page 293
- To staff with or as a girl or girls.
- Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]1949, The New Yorker
Proper noun capitalized: Girling
Girling
- A surname.
Questions about girling
- What does girling mean?
- Girling means a surname.
- What is girling the present participle and gerund of?
- Girling is the present participle and gerund of girl.
- What part of speech is girling?
- Girling is a proper noun.
Words near girling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: girling (page history and authors); Girling (page history and authors); girl (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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