valley girl
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.63 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of valley girl.
name
Valspeak; the dialect of English stereotypically spoken by valley girls.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of valley girl.
noun
A girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
American usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "As entertainment continues to influence the development of language, maybe one day “Shatner commas” and their odd, purposeless positions will become mainstream and the fear of overusing commas will be “refudiated," just “like, like Valley Girls.”"
- "She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure"
- "They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet."
- "2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like."
- "Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girls of Long Island, who are sometimes referred to simply as Island Vals."
Etymology
From Valley, short for San Fernando Valley. Popularized by the Frank/Moon Zappa song Valley Girl (1982).
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Derogatory