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match-girl

match-girl is the alternative form of matchgirl.

Meaning of matchgirl

Noun

matchgirl (plural matchgirls)

  1. (historical) A girl who sold matches on the streets.

Forms of match-girl

pluralmatch-girls

Questions about match-girl

What is match-girl the alternative form of?
Match-girl is the alternative form of matchgirl.

Words near match-girl in the dictionary

  1. match wagon
  2. match wagons
  3. match'd
  4. match-cloth
  5. match-four game
  6. match-girl
  7. match-girls
  8. match-made
  9. match-make
  10. match-maker
  11. match-makers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: match-girl (page history and authors); matchgirl (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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