girlie
Americanadjective
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featuring nude or scantily clad young women: girlie magazines.
a girlie show;
girlie magazines.
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Usually Disparaging and Offensive. of, characteristic of, or befitting girls or young women; feminine in a traditional way.
a girlie girl who likes everything sparkly and pink;
high-pitched girlie voices.
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Usually Disparaging and Offensive. (especially of a man) effeminate or timid.
noun
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girlies
plural
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Disparaging and Offensive. a term of address used for a girl or woman.
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Older Use. a girl, especially a young girl.
cute little girlies.
noun
adjective
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displaying or featuring nude or scantily dressed women
a girlie magazine
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suited to or designed to appeal to young women
a girlie night out
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Origin of girlie
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Though their obsessions with moisturizers and eyebrow grooming seem pretty girlie to someone of my generation, looksmaxxing is rooted in objectification.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
And even if you’re not a "BookTok girlie," as the online community often calls itself, chances are you recognize some of the titles and authors on display.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2025
“I like girlie clothes. I like to maintain myself. I like doing my hair and stuff. It’s fun for me,” Cheverria said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024
"We spent such a lovely first day together... lots of crying and girlie emotion."
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2024
“Bye, little girlie . . . ,” I whispered into Daisy’s ear.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
And on TikTok, all the girlies are having a “Practical Magic” autumn, posting fancams, outfit inspirations and indulging in the Owens’ famous midnight margarita tradition.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
"It's our number one priority to show the girlies out there to be proud of where they come from, no matter what they look like."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
Now that “What Was I Made For?” is the miserabilist hit from the year’s biggest movie, girlies of all genders will have plenty to unpack whenever Eilish hits the road again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2023
Plus: Nadira Goffe explains why Nolan’s films are, in fact, for the girlies.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2023
"Be good, girlies," she said, smiling bravely at them.
From The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
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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