What's the difference between girl and girlish?

Girl


Definition:

  • (n.) A young person of either sex; a child.
  • (n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
  • (n.) A female servant; a maidservant.
  • (n.) A roebuck two years old.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (4) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (5) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (6) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (7) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
  • (8) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
  • (9) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
  • (10) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
  • (11) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
  • (12) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (13) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (14) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
  • (15) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (16) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
  • (17) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (18) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (19) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
  • (20) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.

Girlish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I tell her of course it is, she looks girlishly relieved, like a fifth former who's been let off homework.
  • (2) Northanger Abbey is a jeu d'esprit, in which vivid girlish affection is turned to something deeper by a teasing lover, Henry Tilney.
  • (3) He could throw the ball further than anyone his father had seen, but was mildly frustrated when his sister, Victoria, 23, did not share his passion – teasingly calling her "feeble Phoebie" for her girlish attempts to do the same.
  • (4) She is physically charismatic, and has a way at 50 of seeming both maternal and girlish - a fast-talking New Yorker, yet yoga-calm.
  • (5) Throughout my 20s, my daily style could be described as “cute girlish dress, ideally with a collar, black tights, whatever the weather”.
  • (6) Liking the Mitfords, I realised, was seen as something girlish, shallow and immature, like having an over-developed fondness for ponies, or wanting to be a ballerina.
  • (7) Changeability, I think, is seen as girlish, or something, which is ridiculous.
  • (8) That pink, glittery girlishness also defines the "reality" show, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion, which started in 2005 and ran for six series, providing a sanitised look at life for Hefner's many girlfriends.
  • (9) Each model had her hair brushed smoothly into a girlish half-ponytail, secured with a simple gold hoop clip – a detail that recurred on the fastenings of the handbags, which were more structured versions of the bucket-shaped bags popular on the front row.
  • (10) What gives the thing its horror, queerly enough, is the girlishness.
  • (11) Set up as a giant chess game, it showcased a wide range of ideas, from girlish Edwardian tailored sailor jackets to 18th-century flower-embroidered jackets over candy-striped puffball skirts.
  • (12) A sudden release, into girlish, almost giddy fandom.
  • (13) She is nearly 50, but there is something girlish about her still – the angular kind of girl who will run through fields barefoot, who thinks nothing of getting her hands dirty (Lucas's fingers are stubby, workman-like); a grownup, slightly more masculine version of Sissy Spacek in Terrence Malick's Badlands.
  • (14) He was no intellectual but he discovered in the great roles some element others had not detected: his Macbeth revealed the character's dark irony, his Coriolanus uncovered a faintly girlish shyness inside the military hero and, as Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Olivier found a sexual vanity that led him to check his appearance in the mirror before explaining deforestation to the captivating Elena.
  • (15) After last season's short, pastel, girlish collection this was a radical turnaround for Kane, but his is a customer with a real love of fashion.
  • (16) He wrote to Gertrude Thomson, an artist who was sketching girlish fairies and nymphs, "I confess I do not admire naked boys in pictures.
  • (17) Girlishness is a national obsession – Japan did not ban possession of child pornography until 2014 – and its most popular female icon, Hello Kitty, doesn’t have a mouth.
  • (18) Listening to his hesitant speaking voice, and looking at that slight, fragile body, the beautiful clothes, the girlish bone structure, you’d imagine him having a singing voice as light as chiffon, a mere wisp of a thing.
  • (19) Its door release mechanism being somewhat temperamental, when I ring her bell one dank morning in May, she must skip downstairs to greet me – something she does barefoot, the skirt of her primrose broderie anglaise dress gathered girlishly in her hands.
  • (20) Contrary to his imposing, weather-beaten appearance, he delivers songs in keening, vulnerable, almost girlish tones: listening to him, you instantly hear that quintessentially American quality known as 'The High Lonesome'.

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