girlish
UK/ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ//ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/
girlish adjective: like (that of) a girl; feminine.
Adjective
girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)
- Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
- She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC
- Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert; Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act 1
- Of or relating to girlhood.
- This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html
girlish meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
girlish in Malayalam
- കന്യോചിതമായ, ബാലികാസഹജമായ, നിഷ്കപടമായ, പെൺകുട്ടിയെപ്പോലെ
girlish in Kannada
- ಹುಡುಗಿತನದ, ಹುಡುಗಿಯಂಥ, ಹುಡುಗಿಯಂತೆ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸುವ
girlish in Arabic
- like a girl
- بَنَاتِيّ banātiyy
Forms of girlish
| comparative | more girlish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most girlish |
Origin of girlish
From girl + -ish.
Words formed from girlish
Words that rhyme with girlish
Questions about girlish
- What does girlish mean?
- Girlish means like (that of) a girl; feminine.
- What is girlish in Malayalam?
- Girlish in Malayalam is കന്യോചിതമായ, ബാലികാസഹജമായ, നിഷ്കപടമായ. See Girlish meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is girlish?
- Girlish is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce girlish?
- Girlish is pronounced /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/ (UK).
Words near girlish in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: girlish (page history and authors); girlish (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); girlish (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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