good girl
Americannoun
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good girls
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(used to express approval to a young female child, a female domestic animal, or facetiously to a woman).
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Informal. a woman who obediently follows expectations or conventions, or appears to do so.
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I said, “Well, when I came in, I thought I can either be a good girl or a bad girl, and I decided I’m going to be a bad girl.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
He added they had "hit it off straight away" and stated: "I'm so glad that I told her a hundred times a day that she was a very good girl."
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
I'm always the good girl, and I show up and do my job.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2024
Brenda was a baby-faced good girl from Minnesota with an attractive twin brother who moved with her family to L.A.’s most famous and posh ZIP Code during her formative high school years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2024
“You were a good girl, Laura, to do exactly as I told you, and to do it quickly, without asking why.”
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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