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girldom

noun

Etymology

From girl + -dom.

  1. inherited from *gurilā✻
  2. inherited from *gyrele✻
  3. inherited from gerle
  4. suffixed as girldom — “girl + dom”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being a girl

    The condition of being a girl; girlhood.

    • […] I embodied the sugar-and-spice nursery-rhyme image of girldom. I had the long golden Heidi braids, a toy chest overflowing with Mattel paraphernalia […]

  2. The world or sphere of girls.

    • If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for girldom. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA