girlish

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɜː.lɪʃ/    美 /ˈɡɝ.lɪʃ/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
    — She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
  2. Of or relating to girlhood. archaic
    — 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .

词形变化

more girlish comparative most girlish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
girlishly girlishness little-girlish ungirlish
相关词
schoolgirlish boyish womanish

词源

Etymology tree
English girl
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English girlish
From girl + -ish.
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