puppygirlhood

Noun

puppygirlhood (uncountable)

1. (neologism, nonce-word) The state or condition of being a puppygirl.
   • Catgirls were "early transfem phase" at a macro level, purely a want of aesthetic and social appeal of anime catgirls. ¶ Puppygirlhood is the acceptance of ones own place in society as an Average Jane and being able to work on what you actually want to exhibit as a person beyond2024 March 15, @FatesWright, X (post), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2026
   • The drawing illustrates this transition by showing a passage from youthful partying to adult office work – but one within which the trans woman in question is still a dog. The potentially queerphobic mandate of leaving the childhood follies of erotic extravagance for the sake of gainful employment...2025, Jay Szpilka, “What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style”, in Australian Feminist Studies, →DOI, page 20 of 1–24