Girlish
['gɜːlɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) befitting or characteristic of a young girl; 'girlish charm'; 'a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear' .
Checker: Stella--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.
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Examples
- She had her girlish ambitions and hopes, and felt some disappointment at the humble way in which the new life must begin. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I could only sit down before my fire, biting the key of my carpet-bag, and think of the captivating, girlish, bright-eyed lovely Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Papa, I am not hurt, said a girlish voice; am I with papa? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Amelia should be a small, light, girlish, skipping figure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He is better able to judge of it than I am; for I very well know that I am a weak, light, girlish creature, and that he is a firm, grave, serious man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Can I say of her innocent and girlish beauty, that it faded, and was no more, when its breath falls on my cheek now, as it fell that night? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So she made her wedding gown herself, sewing into it the tender hopes and innocent romances of a girlish heart. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I wish Harriet would come to me, said the girlish voice, faintly. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She colored angrily, but took no other notice of that girlish sarcasm, and answered with unexpected amiability. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A delicious burst of girlish laughter sounded from the court. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mary spoke from a girlish impulse which got the better of her judgment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The signs of girlish sorrow in her face were only the more striking. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But the pretty, timid, girlish letters of Dolores were beginning to have a charm for both Margaret and her father. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When her sweet voice died away, an emulous nightingale began to sing as if in rivalry, and Helena burst out into girlish laughter. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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