schoolgirl

[ skool-gurl ]

/ ˈskulˌgɜrl /

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noun

a girl attending school.

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Origin of schoolgirl

First recorded in 1770–80; school¹ + girl

OTHER WORDS FROM schoolgirl

schoolgirlish, adjective

Words nearby schoolgirl

school crossing patrol, school day, schooler, schoolfellow, school figure, schoolgirl, schoolgirl complexion, schoolhouse, schoolie, Schoolies Week, schooling

How to use schoolgirl in a sentence

She flounced to the well in an exaggerated schoolgirl get up and what looked like a wig, gave a theatrical thumbs down, and flounced out seeming as happy to own the libs in that moment as Marjorie Taylor Greene is to taunt them everyday.
Here’s Why Schumer’s Mostly OK With Manchin Blocking His Agenda|Margaret Carlson|June 11, 2021|The Daily Beast
These images of schoolgirl skirts and peekaboo buttock outlines are just the most open, unapologetic manifestation of that.
In Defense of American Apparel: Why a Hitched-Up Skirt Barely Conceals a Profound Social Confusion|Tim Teeman|August 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like, clap-my-hands-together-in-schoolgirl-like-glee over the moon to see it.
‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2: The Finest, Funniest, and Most Terrifying Moments of Eps. 1-6|Kevin Fallon, Marlow Stern|June 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The teenage schoolgirl died from an allergic reaction to penicillin last June during the botched operation.
Egypt: Stop Mutilating Little Girls!|Bel Trew|April 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In the film, a young schoolgirl in uniform calls Divine sick and repulsive.
A Tribute to Divine, Hollywood’s Most Infamous Drag Queen|Jimmy So|October 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And one schoolgirl walks home from class with a friend and is stopped by a stranger who demands the girls show him their breasts.
Everyday Sexism Creator Laura Bates on Helping Women Speak Out|Anna Klassen|April 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Captain Godwin blushed through his coat of tan like a schoolgirl.
Boy Scouts in the Philippines|G. Harvey Ralphson
She did not answer at once, and, glancing in her direction, I saw that she had flushed like a schoolgirl.
Dross|Henry Seton Merriman
She had been as foolish over him as a schoolgirl in the matter of a matinée idol.
The Highgrader|William MacLeod Raine
And then had come a wonderful day, a wonderful thing, into the schoolgirl's life.
Warrior Gap|Charles King