"girlish" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-girlish.ogg Forms: more girlish [comparative], most girlish [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ Etymology: From girl + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|girl|ish}} girl + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)
  1. Like (that of) a girl; feminine. Translations (like a girl): بَنَاتِيّ (banātiyy) (Arabic), дзяво́чы (dzjavóčy) (Belarusian), дзяво́цкі (dzjavócki) (Belarusian), моми́чешки (momíčeški) (Bulgarian), 少女的 (shàonǚ de) (Chinese Mandarin), dívčí (Czech), meisjesachtig (Dutch), knabina (Esperanto), tyttömäinen (Finnish), de fille (French), de petite fille (French), de jeune fille (French), გოგოსებური (gogoseburi) (Georgian), ქალიშვილური (kališviluri) (Georgian), mädchenhaft (German), Mädchen- (German), κοριτσίστικος (koritsístikos) (Greek), lányos (Hungarian), 女の子らしい (onnanoko rashii) (alt: おんなのこらしい) (Japanese), 소녀답다 (sonyeodapda) (Korean), puellāris (Latin), meitenīgs (Latvian), момински (mominski) (Macedonian), tamahine (Maori), jentete (Norwegian Bokmål), jenteaktig (Norwegian Bokmål), pikeaktig (Norwegian Bokmål), dziewczęcy (Polish), feminino (Portuguese), деви́чий (devíčij) (Russian), дѐвојачки [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), дјѐвојачки [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), dèvojački [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), djèvojački [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), dievčenský (Slovak), dekliški (Slovene), de niña (Spanish), kızsı (Turkish), діво́чий (divóčyj) (Ukrainian), дівча́чий (divčáčyj) (Ukrainian), діво́цький (divócʹkyj) (Ukrainian), מיידליש (meydlish) (Yiddish)
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  2. (archaic) Of or relating to girlhood. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-girlish-en-adj-2do~ARIF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: girlishly, girlishness, little-girlish, ungirlish Related terms: schoolgirlish, boyish, womanish
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          "ref": "1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act 1:",
          "text": "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!",
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ish",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ/2 syllables",
    "Terms with Arabic translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Georgian translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Latvian translations",
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    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Yiddish translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "girlishly"
    },
    {
      "word": "girlishness"
    },
    {
      "word": "little-girlish"
    },
    {
      "word": "ungirlish"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "girl",
        "3": "ish"
      },
      "expansion": "girl + -ish",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From girl + -ish.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more girlish",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most girlish",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "schoolgirlish"
    },
    {
      "word": "boyish"
    },
    {
      "word": "womanish"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act 1:",
          "text": "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1898, William Watson, “Song”, in The Hope of the World and Other Poems, London: John Lane, page 41:",
          "text": "April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Like (that of) a girl; feminine."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "girl",
          "girl"
        ],
        [
          "feminine",
          "feminine"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html\nThis 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 […] ."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to girlhood."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "girlhood",
          "girlhood"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Of or relating to girlhood."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/En-us-girlish.ogg"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "banātiyy",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "بَنَاتِيّ"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dzjavóčy",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "дзяво́чы"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dzjavócki",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "дзяво́цкі"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "momíčeški",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "моми́чешки"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shàonǚ de",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "少女的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "dívčí"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "meisjesachtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "knabina"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "tyttömäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "de fille"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "de petite fille"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "de jeune fille"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gogoseburi",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "გოგოსებური"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "kališviluri",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "ქალიშვილური"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "mädchenhaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "Mädchen-"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "koritsístikos",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "κοριτσίστικος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "lányos"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おんなのこらしい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "onnanoko rashii",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "女の子らしい"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "sonyeodapda",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "소녀답다"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "puellāris"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "meitenīgs"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "mominski",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "момински"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "tamahine"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "jentete"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "jenteaktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "pikeaktig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "dziewczęcy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "feminino"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "devíčij",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "деви́чий"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "дѐвојачки"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "дјѐвојачки"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "dèvojački"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "djèvojački"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "dievčenský"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "dekliški"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "de niña"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "kızsı"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "divóčyj",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "діво́чий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "divčáčyj",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "дівча́чий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "divócʹkyj",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "діво́цький"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "meydlish",
      "sense": "like a girl",
      "word": "מיידליש"
    }
  ],
  "word": "girlish"
}

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