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girlish

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Adjective
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girl=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

girlisha. 
     Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

girlish, adj. of or like a girl.

Derivative
girlishly adv. girlishness n.

THESAURUS

girlish

airy, attenuate, attenuated, beardless, boyish, boylike, calflike, childish, childlike, coltish, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, distaff, ethereal, female, feminine, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gauzy, gentlewomanlike, girllike, gossamer, gracile, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, insubstantial, kiddish, kittenish, lacy, ladylike, light, little-girlish, maiden, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, misty, muliebral, papery, petticoat, puerile, puplike, puppyish, puppylike, rare, rarefied, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, wispy, womanish, womanlike, womanly

ROGET THESAURUS

girlish

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.


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