girl

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈɡɜːl/]

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1. girl (noun) — sense 1

Definition: A female child.

Example: I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.

2. girl (noun) — sense 2

Definition: A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.

Example: He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.

3. girl (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A term of address to a female (see usage notes)

Example: Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?

4. girl (verb) — sense 4

Definition: To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.

Example: Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.

5. girl (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To staff with or as a girl or girls.

Example: Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]

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