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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)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (informal) 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Girling

Girling

  1. 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

  1. girlify
  2. girlifying
  3. girlily
  4. girlina
  5. girliness
  6. girling
  7. girlish
  8. girlishly
  9. girlishness
  10. girlishnesses
  11. girlism

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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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