Crossword clues for girlish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Girlish \Girl"ish\, a. Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief. -- Girl"ish*ly, adv. -- Girl"ish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from girl + -ish. Related: Girlishly; girlishness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Like a girl; feminine. 2 Of or relating to girlhood.
WordNet
adj. befitting or characteristic of a young girl; "girlish charm"; "a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear" [syn: schoolgirlish]
Usage examples of "girlish".
Esther laughed suddenly, a bubbling, girlish laugh, and then pretended that she had laughed because Jane had stubbed her toe.
It had always been so easy to talk to Uncle Cesse, confide all her girlish secrets in him.
She had lost the odor of chypre now and smelled only of sweet girlish flesh.
I say, Nellie, if you really mean to get the juice out of me, lend me your girlish cunny instead.
The soft swell of girlish breasts, between which nestled the exotic jade brooch, moved him so that he felt his groin swell and engorge pleasantly.
Louise Marie was dressed as always in the height of Paris fashion, the bell-shaped skirt of girlish yellow jaconet trimmed with blond lace, flounces, and far too many silk roses.
Ellen Cherry recognized the signs: a fluttering of his girlish lashes, a relaxing of the origami creases in his forehead.
It was for him alone that they both lived and toiled, the one still a fine, good-looking woman at forty years of age, the other yet girlish at thirty.
Who would have suspected that such indomitable energy and such an impassioned soul was hidden beneath such girlish artlessness and apparent coldness?
Even Count Aldo Belli was now on his feet, brandishing his pistol and shouting with a high, girlish hysteria.
Madame dressed in a girlish style presented a singular appearance, but Mdlle.
His almost girlish purity of mind amused and charmed them, and they did all they could to preserve it, even in the Quartier Latin, where purity is apt to go bad if it be kept too long.
Her hair was restyled in the same straight, girlish fashion she always wore, but the pearls were the last straw.
Mar was proud of his son, although the boy had inherited his curly hair from his roundhead grandmother and his girlish curved eyelashes and his clear gaze from his mother.
Isabel subsidized feral hippies and the mulatto offspring of her criminal relations and Rachel Ebdus could certainly send Dylan, God help him, to Public School 38 to show his sole white face among that ocean of brown, to air his waterfall of girlish hair among the Afros, if that was what suited her principles.