girlish
/ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.47 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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!"
- "April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!"
- "1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html 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 […] ."
Etymology
Etymology tree English girl Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -isch English -ish English girlish From girl + -ish.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/
- British English: /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more girlish (comparative)
most girlish (superlative)