big girl

plural big girls

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, girl.
2. informalAn older girl; a girl who is no longer an infant; a female child considered mature enough for a specified purpose.

   You can tie your own shoelaces – you're a big girl now.

3. derogatoryinformalA timid, weak or effeminate boy or man.

   Stop crying, you big girl!

4. idiomaticinformalAn adult woman; a woman behaving as a responsible adult.

   Coordinate term: big boy

   4 more examples

   Just put on your big-girl panties and make a choice.

   Bobby knew he should've followed up the way Lucky would've, but what the heck – he had other things on his mind. And Brigette was a big girl – she could look after herself.

   2011, Jackie Collins, Poor Little Bitch Girl

   Clinical health psychologist, author and nationally recognized speaker Dr. Lori Stevic-Rust shows today's women what "having it all" really means, revealing that when women step into their big-girl shoes-reckoning with their contradictions and fears-they can tap into their awesome power

   2016, Lori Stevic-Rust, Put On Your Big-Girl Shoes

   When I went to college, thinking I was now a big girl and could look after myself, I stopped the antimalarial prevention medication, and within 6 months I had a bout of malaria for the first time in my life.

   2020 April 27, Patricia (on-line commenter), “Recognising progress in crisis: what malaria has taught Sierra Leone – op-ed”, in Sierra Leone Telegraph

5. A woman who is overweight.

   I was surprised he didn't take the straight line Camryn fed him about "Do you like big girls?"

   1999 May 12, Greg Anderson, “Dave loves the big girls”, in alt.fan.letterman (Usenet), message-ID <7hb1gl$qgt$1@firewall.afs.com>

   1 more example

   Diet Coke and a pizza please / Diet Coke, I'm on my knees / Screaming, "Big girl, you are beautiful"

   2007 July 23, MIKA, “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”, in Life in Cartoon Motion