Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Featuring minimally clothed or naked women, typically in pornography.
  • noun A girl or young woman.

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  • noun slang A magazine targeted to an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women.
  • noun colloquial A young girl.
  • adjective slang Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.

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Examples

  • My girlie is demanding for sure, and it makes me feel all sorts of guilty when it seems that her wishes take precedent over her big brother’s.

    Her Bad Birthday: A Love Song | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • Neither of those two extremes — the “you were raised a man, so I know exactly what your life was like and I’m here to tell you all about it” and “I identify as a girlie for all these girlie reasons and that makes me as much a girlie as you” sides — will ever contribute to a meaningful feminist dialog on the subject.

    Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments 2007

  • It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • I don't have many so-called girlie habits but I really hate it when my eyebrows get bushy.

    RBOC: Weekend Edition Brigindo 2009

  • It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.

    The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009

  • It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • BLITZER: It's likely not a ride for what the governor of California calls girlie men.

    CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2006 2006

  • Shafton home in New Jersey and jollied the maid, calling her girlie, and saying he was in the employ of young Laurie Shafton and had a special private message from the young man to his mother.

    The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906

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