girl

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A female child.

   • I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.
2. 2

   A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.

   • He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.
3. 3

   A term of address to a female (see usage notes)

   • Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?
   • "What a pity you couldn't see it." "Isn't it?" I agreed. "Now do go away, there's a good girl."
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   1. 4

      One's girlfriend.

      • He lucked out with that girl of his. Smart, sweet, sassy, and pretty too.
      • There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!
      • I took my girl to the cinema to watch your American movies.
   2. 5

      One's daughter.

      • Your girl turned up on our doorstep. She was crying about the argument on the playground. We let her vent.
   3. 6

      A female friend.

   4. 7

      A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially…

      A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.

      • Hey, Tricksy, come here, girl! Do you want a treat? Yes, you love those biscuits, don't you! What a good girl! Here's another!
      • Sheila – 9yo Blue Cattle Dog x. Lovely girl seeks forever home.
   5. 8

      A female (tree, gene, etc).

      • Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
      • Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.
   6. 9

      A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.

      • The old girl ain't as pretty as she once was, but she still purrs like a kitten and still gets out of her own way!
      • Daly came, delved into the old girl's inner works, and had her working in jig time.
   7. 10

      A female servant

      A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)

      • He assumed that the girls should clean up his giant mess. We straightened out his misconception.
   8. 11

      Cocaine, especially in powder form.

      • He's the sort of lowlife who snorts coke and refers to it as his girl.
      • She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
      • Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl.
   9. 12

      A queen (the playing card).

      • Are your sure you want to discard that old girl?
   10. 13

       A roebuck two years old.

   11. 14

       A child of any gender.

   12. 15

       To feminize or girlify

       To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.

       • Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
       • One can argue that the genre “yuppified” the popular romance novel or perhaps “girled” the not especially gender-specific concept of the young urban professional.
   13. 16

       To staff with or as a girl or girls.

       • Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]
       • She and her Altrurian diplomat husband, arriving there by sea, are greeted by flower-laden boats, each not manned, but girled by six rowers, who pulled as true a stroke as I ever saw.
   14. 17

       A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of…

       A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle.

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