newsgirl
Americannoun
noun
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Gender-neutral forms: newsreader. reporter. informal a female newsreader or reporter
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a girl who sells or delivers newspapers
Etymology
Origin of newsgirl
Example Sentences
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She plays a newsgirl who grows up to be a model and subsequently an actress.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young Irish heroine starts as a poor newsgirl under the Brooklyn Bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
For her to wake up to it only now and run bruiting the stale information would be a ridiculous nuisance—a newsgirl howling yesterday's extra to to-day's busy crowd.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
I watched her turn and speak politely to a ragged newsgirl.
From The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
If she could be a newsgirl without attracting undue attention, he would be as willing to pay her twenty cents a week as to pay any ordinary small boy a quarter.
From The Rosie World by Fillmore, Parker
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