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schoolgirl

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A girl attending school.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1777, from school (n.1) + girl . As an adjective from 1922.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Schoolgirl " is the first single from the 1986 album Another Step by Kim Wilde . Released in Australia and several European countries (although not the UK), it was the first single of Wilde's career on which she was given co-writing credits. She was given ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schoolgirl \School"girl`\, n. A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES schoolgirl crush ▪ It’s just a schoolgirl crush . COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN crush ▪ What had begun as a schoolgirl crush had grown into a profound and romantic desire to be Charles's bride. ▪ For Mr Robins, Inge ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a girl attending school

Usage examples of schoolgirl.

The baronet thought it a natural proposition that Clare should be a bride or a schoolgirl.

A perfect carpet of it is at our feet, and the brooklet makes the sweetest murmuring as it glides onward through the grove, telling all the while, like some silly schoolgirl, where you may look for it.

BREED in purple spectral lettering and dozens of UK record-company executives in Mad Max gear hang out with tattooed models from Holland and managing directors from Polygram share bananas and sip psybertronic drinks with magazine editors and half of a progressive British hip-hop act wearing schoolgirl uniforms is dancing with modeling agency bookers along with ghosts, extras, insiders, various people from the world at large.

And like a schoolgirl of seventeen instead of a spinster of seven-and-twenty, she continued to harbor a ridiculous infatuation for him.

A beautiful love, expressed in whirlwind activity, and a schoolgirl vocabulary, and a greatness of spirit that found its expression in jelly tartlets and exquisite little sandwiches and an unfailing charity of mind.

What they saw may still be in dispute, a reasonable explanation in terrestrial terms may yet be forthcoming, but there is little doubt in my mind they saw something - just as did two schoolgirls walking near Dunoon, Argyllshire, in September 1959.

He glanced down at her, surprised again to find himself looking at a beautiful young woman instead of the tomboyish schoolgirl he always seemed to think her.

Why a grown-up young woman allowed herself to be cheapened in the way so many of them do by the use of names which become them as well as the frock of a ten-year-old schoolgirl would become a graduate of the Corinna Institute, the old postmaster could not guess.

In a short plaid skirt and white blouse, she had dressed the part of a penitent schoolgirl, though her kneesocks covered the tapering calves of a mature woman.

The German matron gazed around her indignantly as if calling on everyone to witness this unimaginable outrage, and then set up a bloodcurdling squealing, adding her voice to the screeching of the schoolgirls and the stout lady, who had been emitting piercing shrieks for several seconds.

Tall and willowy, with a cloud of dark hair, she had that kind of oval face and olive skin that schoolgirls dreamed of having.

A beautiful love, expressed in whirlwind activity, and a schoolgirl vocabulary, and a greatness of spirit that found its expression in jelly tartlets and exquisite little sandwiches and an unfailing charity of mind.

Mabel Homer case, the Muswell Hill schoolgirl, you knowthat man Capper was extraordinary.

As a matter of factmy last caseI don't know whether you read about itthe Mabel Homer case, the Muswell Hill schoolgirl, you knowthat man Capper was extraordinary.

Bunn's defects, she was superb at holding errant schoolgirls in an iron grip while I applied her favorite implement to their behinds.