adj
Meaning 1
Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
girlish
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/
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General-American: /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)lɪʃ
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CMU ARPABET: G ER1 L IH0 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Of or relating to girlhood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Examples
- 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 [...] .
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
befitting or characteristic of a young girl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- girlish charm
- a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: schoolgirlish
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English girl Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Proto-Germanic *-iskaz Proto-West Germanic *-isk Old English -isċ Middle English -ish English -ish English girlish From girl + -ish.
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَنَاتِيّ (banātiyy) — like a girl
- Belarusian: дзяво́чы (dzjavóčy) — like a girl
- Belarusian: дзяво́цкі (dzjavócki) — like a girl
- Bulgarian: моми́чешки (momíčeški) — like a girl
- Chinese Mandarin: 少女的 (shàonǚ de) — like a girl
- Czech: dívčí — like a girl
- Dutch: meisjesachtig — like a girl
- Esperanto: knabina — like a girl
- Finnish: tyttömäinen — like a girl
- French: de fille — like a girl
- French: de petite fille — like a girl
- French: de jeune fille — like a girl
- Georgian: გოგოსებური (gogoseburi) — like a girl
- Georgian: ქალიშვილური (kališviluri) — like a girl
- German: mädchenhaft — like a girl
- German: Mädchen- — like a girl
- Greek: κοριτσίστικος (koritsístikos) — like a girl
- Ancient Greek: κορασιώδης (korasiṓdēs) — like a girl
- Hungarian: lányos — like a girl
- Japanese: 女の子らしい (onnanoko rashii) — like a girl
- Korean: 소녀답다 (sonyeodapda) — like a girl
- Latin: puellāris — like a girl
- Latvian: meitenīgs — like a girl
- Macedonian: момински (mominski) — like a girl
- Māori: tamahine — like a girl
- Norwegian Bokmål: jentete — like a girl
- Norwegian Bokmål: jenteaktig — like a girl
- Norwegian Bokmål: pikeaktig — like a girl
- Polish: dziewczęcy — like a girl
- Portuguese: feminino — like a girl
- Russian: деви́чий (devíčij) — like a girl
- Serbo-Croatian: дѐвојачки — like a girl
- Serbo-Croatian: дјѐвојачки — like a girl
- Serbo-Croatian: dèvojački — like a girl
- Serbo-Croatian: djèvojački — like a girl
- Slovak: dievčenský — like a girl
- Slovene: dekliški — like a girl
- Spanish: de niña — like a girl
- Turkish: kızsı — like a girl
- Ukrainian: діво́чий (divóčyj) — like a girl
- Ukrainian: дівча́чий (divčáčyj) — like a girl
- Ukrainian: діво́цький (divócʹkyj) — like a girl
- Yiddish: מיידליש (meydlish) — like a girl