[
UK
/ɡˈɜːlɪʃ/
]
[ US /ˈɡɝɫɪʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɝɫɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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befitting or characteristic of a young girl
a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear
girlish charm
How To Use girlish In A Sentence
- Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek.
- I began walking down the hallway but stopped when I heard two girlish giggles erupt from behind a room.
- Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
- And both mouths, while generously proportioned, carried the impression of girlish sweetness and chastity along with the muscles that could draw the lips to the firmness and harshness that would not give the lie to the square, uncleft chins beneath. CHAPTER IX
- He was often unable to resist her girlish charms and detested the thought of making the poor child work more than she should.
- He has a surprisingly boyish voice, with a comical, girlish giggle. Times, Sunday Times
- The years have softened his face into an almost girlish blur. Times, Sunday Times
- Each song is wrapped up in girlish emotion that transcends the love and loss theme that every other female artist seems to stumble into.
- Nor yet the Austrian cross-breeds who are to be beheld behind the _gulasch_ in the Rue d'Hauteville, nor the semi-Milanese who sibilate the _minestrone_ at Aldegani's in the Passage des Panoramas, nor the Frenchified Spaniards and Portuguese who gobble the _guisillo madrileño_ at Don José's in the Rue Helder, nor the half-French Cossacks amid the _potrokha_ in the Restaurant Cubat, nor the Orientals with the waxed moustachios and girlish waists who may be observed at moontide dawdling over their _café à la Turque_ at Madame Europe After 8:15
- She has tousled, spiky hair that manages to look girlish.