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
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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.
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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.
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It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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I don't have many so-called girlie habits but I really hate it when my eyebrows get bushy.
RBOC: Weekend Edition Brigindo 2009
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It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton 2009
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It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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BLITZER: It's likely not a ride for what the governor of California calls girlie men.
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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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