girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜːl/
ipa: /ˈɡɛəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɪəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɜɹl/
ipa: [ˈɡɝəɫ]
ipa: /ˈɡɵːl/
ipa: [ˈɡʏw]
ipa: /ˈɡɪɾəl/
ipa: [ˈɡɪɾəɫ]
ipa: /ɡɜ(r)l/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ɡərl/
ipa: /ɡɜ(ɻ)ɭ/
ipa: /ɡɜɹl/
ipa: [ɡɚ(ɹ)ɫ]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ɡəɹ(ə)l]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ɡɛɹl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
homophone: Guirl
Forms: form: girls
form: gal
form: gel
form: girle
form: gyrle
form: gorl
form: grrrl
form: grrl
form: guhrl
form: gurl
form: gworl
form: gyal
Etymology: From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.
Senses: examples: text: I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.
glosses: A female child.
examples: text: He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.
qualifier: see usage note
glosses: A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
examples: text: Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?
text: "My dear girl, what has he done?" said Mrs. Mallowe, sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other "dear girl," just as commissioners of twenty-eight years' standing address their equals in the Civil List as "my boy."
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 10:
text: 'Now, girls,' continued Healey, 'you're very high-spirited and that's as it should be but I won't have you getting out of hand.[…]' […] Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, pages 5–6:
synonyms: girlie
lass
lassie
glosses: A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
examples: text: He lucked out with that girl of his. Smart, sweet, sassy, and pretty too.
text: There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!
ref: 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl from Hollywood:
text: I took my girl to the cinema to watch your American movies.
ref: 1996, Elizabeth Wong, Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy about Getting Along, page 74:
text: Don't look at me, you got a girl at home
And everybody knows that, everybody knows that, ah-ah
Don't look at me, you got a girl at home
And everybody knows that
ref: 2012, Taylor Swift, “Girl at Home”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: One's girlfriend.
examples: text: Your girl turned up on our doorstep. She was crying about the argument on the playground. We let her vent.
glosses: One's daughter.
glosses: A female friend.
raw_tags: with a possessive
examples: text: Hey, Tricksy, come here, girl! Do you want a treat? Yes, you love those biscuits, don't you! What a good girl! Here's another!
text: Sheila – 9yo Blue Cattle Dog x. Lovely girl seeks forever home.
ref: 2025 March 9, Australian Cattle Dog Rescue:
glosses: A female non-human animal, especially, in affectionate address, a female pet, especially a dog.
examples: text: Are you getting a boy cat or a girl cat?
text: Are there “boy” trees and “girl” trees? Yes. A number of species, among them the yew, holly and date-bearing palm, have their male and female flowers on different trees. The male holly, for instance, must be planted fairly close to the female ...
ref: 1950, Pageant, page 51:
text: Of the 100 percent total, 25 will have two girl genes, 50 will have one boy and one girl gene, and 25 will have two boy genes.
ref: 1970 [earlier 1963], Helen V. Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, Helen Van Pelt's African Violets, Dutton Adult
text: When there are two "girl" genes the plant is a girl dwarf.
ref: 1972, GSN Gesneriad Saintpaulia News: African Violets, Gloxinias, Other Gesneriads and Exotic Plants, volumes 9–10, page 37:
glosses: A female (tree, gene, etc).
raw_tags: as a modifier
examples: text: The old girl ain't as pretty as she once was, but she still purrs like a kitten and still gets out of her own way!
text: Daly came, delved into the old girl's inner works, and had her working in jig time.
ref: 1917 June 29, Les Enfant, “The Trials of Commuter Jones—a Would-Be Pumber”, in Metal Worker, Pumber, and Steam Fitter, volume 87, number 26, page 874:
text: “Quiet, everyone!” said Dad as he tried desperately to start the car. GRRR… GRRR… GRRR… Instead of shuddering into life, Queenie let out a low, grinding noise. “Oh no,” said Dad.
“What?” asked the boy.
“The engine must have flooded when she went upside down. The poor old girl won’t start again now for hours. We’re going to have to walk.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: The tired old girl was listing heavily in the heavy seas.
ref: 2013, Rose George, Deep Sea and Foreign Going:
text: I ran to my car and jumped in. "Come on, girl, start for me, baby!"
ref: 2024, William Halford, POR! Prince of Borland, page 58:
glosses: A machine or vehicle, especially one that the speaker uses often and is fond of.
examples: text: He assumed that the girls should clean up his giant mess. We straightened out his misconception.
synonyms: char
charlady
charwoman
maid
maiden
maidservant
womanservant
glosses: A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
examples: text: He's the sort of lowlife who snorts coke and refers to it as his girl.
text: She had taught me to snort girl, and almost always when I came to her pad, there would be thin sparkling rows of crystal cocaine on the glass top of the cocktail table.
ref: 1969, Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life, Cash Money Content, published 2011, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Elijah nodded congenially to the early evening regulars in the Afro Lounge, headed straight for the telephone hung midway between the mens and womens, his nose smarting from a couple thick lines of recently snorted girl.
ref: 1977, Odie Hawkins, Chicago Hustle, Holloway House, published 1987, →ISBN, page 175:
text: After about an hour or two of half-ass sex and snorting girl, Honey was zoned out. […] She flexed her still numb fingers, trying to find a warmth that didn't seem to come. Cocaine always made her numb.
ref: 2005, K'wan, Hoodlum, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 185:
text: Catch me playing with the plate, yeah I love the sauce
White girl in my nose, I need to clean it off
ref: 2016 July 22, “Bussin” (track 3), in Fenix Flexin (lyrics), Shoreline Mafia (music), Party Pack:
synonyms: word: benzoylmethylecgonine
word: blow
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: booger sugar
word: boots
word: California corn flakes
word: charlie
word: ching
word: coke
word: corinne
word: crystals
word: flake
word: girl
word: hard white
word: marching powder
word: nose candy
word: nose powder
word: party powder
word: powder
word: rock
word: rocks
word: slim
word: sniff
word: snow
word: snuff
word: toot
word: wash
word: white
word: white girl
word: white lady
word: yay
word: yayo
word: yola
glosses: Cocaine, especially in powder form.
examples: text: Are your sure you want to discard that old girl?
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A queen (the playing card).
glosses: A roebuck two years old.
glosses: A child of any gender.
Synonyms: word: babe
word: bint
word: bird
word: cake
word: chick
word: colleen
word: cutty
word: damoiselle
word: damsel
word: elrig
word: frail
word: gal
word: gel
word: girl
word: girlie
word: girly
word: grill
word: hottie
word: lass
word: lassie
word: little girl
word: maggie
word: maid
word: maid child
word: maiden
word: minoress
word: miss
word: missy
word: moggy
word: poppet
word: pucelle
word: puss
word: quean
word: tart
word: wan
word: wench
word: woman child
Hypernyms: word: female
word: person
word: child
Hyponyms: word: frippet
word: grisette
word: hoyden
word: ingenue
word: ladette
word: lolita
word: schoolgirl
word: tomboy
Coordinate terms: boy
woman
Derived terms: acegirl
air girl
air-girl
all-girls
altar girl
antigirl
apegirl
Asian baby girl
as the next girl
attagirl
atta girl
away-day girl
baby girl
bad girl
bagel girl
ball girl
bar girl
bargirl
batgirl
beach-girl
beachgirl
beach girl
bellgirl
best girl
b-girl
B-girl
big girl
big-girl pants
big girl pants
big girl's blouse
biogirl
birl
birthday girl
Bond girl
bottle girl
bottom girl
boy-girl
boy meets girl
boy-meets-girl
boy or girl paradox
boys and girls
bruh girl
bunny girl
bus girl
busgirl
business girl
call girl
call-girl
callgirl
camgirl
cam girl
Campfire Girl
canary girl
candy girl
card girl
career girl
carton girl
catgirl
cat-girl
cat girl
cavegirl
champagne girl
charity girl
chill girl
choirgirl
choir girl
chorus girl
chorus-girl
cigarette girl
cisgirl
cis girl
city girl
clean girl
coatgirl
college girl
comfort girl
coño girl
conyo girl
copygirl
cover girl
cover-girl
cowgirl
cry like a little girl
curls for the girls
cute girls doing cute things
cybergirl
cyclops girl
daddy's girl
Daddy's girl
dairygirl
dancing-girl
dancing girl
daygirl
demigirl
diamonds are a girl's best friend
dice girl
dickgirl
dirty girl
dreamgirl
e-girl
elf-girl
Essex girl
everygirl
failgirl
fake geek girl
fancy girl
fangirl
farm girl
farmgirl
final girl
flower girl
fluff girl
friend girl
friendgirl
gal
genetic girl
gentlegirl
G-girl
g-girl
girl band
girlboss
girl-boy
girlcation
girlchik
girlchild
girlcock
girlcott
girl crazy
girl-crush
girl crush
girldick
girl dinner
girldom
girleen
girlery
girlfag
girlfailure
Girl Friday
girl friday
girl Friday
girl-friend
girl friend
girlfriend
girl-friendly
girlgasm
girl goo
girl grip
girl group
Girl Guides
girlhood
girl-hour
girlie
girlie girl
girlification
girl in every port
girlish
girlism
girlitis
girl juice
girlkind
girlless
girllike
girllove
girllover
girl math
girlmeat
girlmode
girl-mode
girlness
girl next door
girl-next-door
girl parts
girl power
girlproof
girl push-up
girl racer
girl rented overnight
girls and boys
girl scout
Girl Scouts
girl's girl
girls' girl
girlswear
girls with guns
girl talk
girl trouble
girltwink
girlwatcher
girlwatching
girl wonder
girly
girly girl
girlzine
glamour girl
gock
go-go girl
golden girl
golden girls
good girl
good time girl
goodtime girl
good-time girl
grandgirl
green girl
grid girl
grool
grrrl
haul girl
head girl
hello girl
hollaback girl
homegirl
honeygirl
Honeygirl
horse girl
hot girl summer
housegirl
ice girl
idiot girl
I'm a girl
I'm a trans girl
Indian boys and girls
International Day of the Girl
International Day of the Girl Child
item girl
It girl
janegirl
jeep girl
Jersey girl
Jewgirl
joy girl
juicy girl
kanto girl
konyo girl
KTV girl
land girl
lazy girl job
leathergirl
lift girl
little girl
little girls room
lovergirl
lt-girl
lucky girl syndrome
magical girl
mama's girl
manic pixie dream girl
matchgirl
match-girl
mean girl
mergirl
miss girl
missing white girl syndrome
modern girl
monster girl
mudflap girl
musclegirl
muscle girl
nautch-girl
nautch girl
needle-girl
needle girl
newsgirl
niggergirl
number girl
nursegirl
office girl
oh girl
old girl
page-three girl
page three girl
papergirl
paper girl
party girl
pick-me girl
pissgirl
pizza girl
playgirl
plowgirl
pom-pom girl
pompom girl
ponygirl
poor little rich girl
poster girl
postgirl
pot-girl
practice girl
pussygirl
ranchgirl
reply girl
ring girl
riot girl
riot grrrl
rollergirl
round girl
salesgirl
sarong party girl
schoolgirl
scullery girl
sea-girl
second girl
serving girl
shipgirl
shoeshine girl
shopgirl
showgirl
singing girl
sistergirl
skingirl
sky girl
slavegirl
slave-girl
slave girl
snowgirl
soft girl
soldier-girl
spacegirl
sporting girl
sportsgirl
stable girl
stockgirl
street girl
Sunday girl
supergirl
Surrey girl
sweater girl
switchgirl
target girl
telephone girl
temple girl
TG-girl
TG girl
tg-girl
t-girl
tgirl
that girl
that's a girl
the girl next door
the girls are fighting
three-way girl
tomgirl
trans girl
transgirl
TS girl
valley girl
Valley girl
valley-girl
van-girl
V-girl
vice girl
victory girl
video girl
VSCO girl
walk-on girl
water girl
weathergirl
whipping girl
white girl
whitegirl
white-girl wasted
who's a good girl
woman and girl
wondergirl
woo girl
workgirl
working girl
ya girl
young girl
your girl