schoolgirl

[ skool-gurl ]

noun

1. a girl attending school.

Other Words From

• schoolgirlish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolgirl¹

First recorded in 1770–80; school ¹ + girl

Example Sentences

Evidence in the trial will include “a schoolgirl outfit,” flight logs, and FedEx records showing Epstein’s gifts to a girl who was only 15 years old.

From The Daily Beast

Corrin’s Diana first appears as a schoolgirl dressed as a tree sprite for a student production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

From Time

It mostly affects teenagers—schoolgirls in particular—and it manifests as just crazy behavior.

From Nautilus

When we first meet Smit’s Ana, she’s practically a schoolgirl, a confused innocent who, with her swollen belly, has no idea what’s in store for her.

From Time

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.

From The Daily Beast

These images of schoolgirl skirts and peekaboo buttock outlines are just the most open, unapologetic manifestation of that.

From The Daily Beast

Like, clap-my-hands-together-in-schoolgirl-like-glee over the moon to see it.

From The Daily Beast

The teenage schoolgirl died from an allergic reaction to penicillin last June during the botched operation.

From The Daily Beast

In the film, a young schoolgirl in uniform calls Divine sick and repulsive.

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.

From Project Gutenberg

Captain Godwin blushed through his coat of tan like a schoolgirl.

From Project Gutenberg

She did not answer at once, and, glancing in her direction, I saw that she had flushed like a schoolgirl.

From Project Gutenberg

She had been as foolish over him as a schoolgirl in the matter of a matinée idol.

From Project Gutenberg

And then had come a wonderful day, a wonderful thing, into the schoolgirl's life.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• adolescent
• baby
• boy
• child
• girl
• infant
• junior
• juvenile
• teenager
• youngster
• youth