Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or characteristic of girls, young women, or traditional femininity.
- adjective Often Derogatory Weak, timid, or effeminate. Used chiefly of men.
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- adjective Characteristic of a
stereotypical girl , veryeffeminate ,sweet - noun
girl
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Examples
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This is no easy task—especially if you want to rate femininity without bringing in your own subjectivity or particular cultural connotations of what makes a name girly.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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This is no easy task—especially if you want to rate femininity without bringing in your own subjectivity or particular cultural connotations of what makes a name girly.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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This is no easy task—especially if you want to rate femininity without bringing in your own subjectivity or particular cultural connotations of what makes a name girly.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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Equally girly is Berber Soepboer and Michiel Schuurman's Color-in-Dress (2008), which presents a cotton dress printed with a mod-looking digital pattern alongside markers for hand-coloring the dress as you see fit.
Dorothy Spears: TechnoCRAFT at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Dorothy Spears 2010
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And I'm very glad to see she isn't being stuck in girly, comedic roles.
Mila Kunis Joins Denzel Washington’s Post-Apocalyptic ‘Book Of Eli’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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I still hold out on the movies, the Disney books, and the merchandise, but she is firmly planted in girly land these days.
Archive 2008-04-01 kittenpie 2008
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I still hold out on the movies, the Disney books, and the merchandise, but she is firmly planted in girly land these days.
The Shape of Three: Reprise kittenpie 2008
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Get more men into the classroom, stop those simpering head teachers from painting everything in girly pastels and stop the curriculum and exam system form discriminating against boys.
No Blacks Allowed.....(?) Newmania 2007
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My girly is from Australia and we looked into getting her AOL for a time because her net at home sucked worse then AOL (I swear it to be true).
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Boy oh boy, AOL sucks hard! 2006
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You used the phrase girly-girl a few times, I'm wondering what that entails in your mind.
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