Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

girls' love

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.08 in modern English

Syllables
girl-s' love
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.

Uncountable

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from girls + love.

Usage

Inflected Forms

GL (abbreviation)

Phrases

boys' love

Frequently Paired Words

boys' love

Questions

What does girls' love mean?
A genre of Japanese media focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.
Where does girls' love come from?
Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from girls + love.

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