- a variation of girlie.
girly
Americanadjective
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(of a girl or woman) feminine in a traditional way, or excessively feminine (sometimes disparaging).
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Disparaging. (of a boy or man) effeminate or timid.
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"I wanted to serve my country and being a soldier meant I could do that at times of war. I wasn't a girly girl and it just seemed like a perfect fit for me."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
I feel like as a kid I didn’t allow myself to fully embrace it because it would be too girly, too much, too gay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Meagan hopes that Off Campus helps the hockey romance genre attract greater respect, adding that it is often dismissed as "silly, trivial and girly".
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Learning that Earle “is a lexapro girly too just proves the baddest bitches have crippling anxiety,” one posted in January.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
But that day in court, I was wearing a very girly dress in my favorite color, blue, with my hair done up in two braids held by matching plastic barrettes.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
I happened to also be a complete tomboy who wasn't interested in girlier things until much later in life.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2021
In our world, Hillary’s forceful participation in that interview saved Bill’s career; in Sittenfeld’s novel, his girlier wife crumbles on the air, and so do his political prospects.
From Slate ● May 9, 2020
Otherwise the magazine could turn out to be, as New York suggested, “a girlier version of Vanity Fair”— which is a bad thing for Condé Nast.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2010
Kimber—the flightiest, girliest Hologram, with the longest, most labor-intensive hair—only dates girls; nobody thinks that’s a problem, nor does anybody think it odd that she falls for someone with Stormer’s body type.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2015
My older sister is the girliest girl on the planet, so I just hated everything about that.
From Forbes ● Nov. 21, 2012
Douglas, a bearded bear of a man, ordered a venti double-chocolate-chip Frappuccino — “the girliest drink ever,” he called it — and then sat down to discuss the future of the growing survivalist industry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2012
I think I was wishing it so hard, I actually imagined it, which was the girliest thing I’ve probably ever done in my life.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
It was the very girliest of girl's rooms and the windows overlooked the lake.
From The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson Rankin
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