Meaning

3 senses

  1. (slang)A magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.

    When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.

  2. (colloquial)A young girl.

    Near-synonyms: baby girl; see also Thesaurus:girl

  3. (Internet, endearing)A woman or person with feminine traits.

    Near-synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl

    K-pop girlie

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Mary is not a girlie girl.

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  2. Mary is a girlie girl.

    deMaria ist ein mädchenhaftes Mädchen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Origin

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-

Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij-

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: girlies
Singulargirlie
Pluralgirlies

regular

Synonyms

40 synonyms
birdA1cakeA1girlA1grillB1missA1girlie magazinegirlie magdirty magazinebaby girlbabechickcolleencuttydamsel

Word family

4 related words
Relatedbabygirlbaby girl
Derivedgirlie maggirlie magazine

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
girlA1girlfriendA1girlhoodgirlishgirly

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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