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girlie

/gur-lee/US // ˈgɜr li //UK // (ˈɡɜːlɪ) //

女孩,女生,姑娘,女孩子

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
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    girl·i·er, girl·i·est.

    • : featuring nude or scantily clad young women: a girlie show;girlie magazines.
    • : 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.
    • : Usually Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate or timid.
n.名词 noun
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    plural girl·ies.

    • : Disparaging and Offensive. a term of address used for a girl or woman.
    • : Older Use a girl, especially a young girl: cute little girlies.

Examples

  • The thing is this: the only way this show is girlie is that Mindy wears colorful clothing.

  • But like Romy & Michelle and Baby Mama, those movies, by and large, are easy to describe as, well, girlie.

  • Most of all, she was a “girlie girl,” Pastor Rick Long of Grace Church of Arvada said.

  • “I came in thinking this is all going to be touchy feely girlie stuff, but it only took a few days and I was hooked,” he told me.

  • I'm beginning to think that there is a good deal to Jack, for all he's so girlie.

  • Come along, girlie, directed the aunt, and she wound an arm over the shoulder that pressed up to her affectionately.

  • Hester, my blessed, blessed girlie, it is the most beautiful thing in the world!

  • That's good, girlie; and now you must eat your luncheon and then lie down for a little rest before you go this afternoon.

  • The offer was graciousness itself, but it implied such a lack on Girlie's part that she felt vaguely uncomfortable.