girlie

plural girlies · alternative girly

1. slangA magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.

   When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.

   Synonyms: girlie magazine, girlie mag, dirty magazine, fuck book

2. colloquialA young girl.

   Near-synonyms: baby girl; see also Thesaurus:girl

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   And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]

   1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

   Synonyms: baby girl, babe, bint, bird, cake, chick, colleen, cutty

3. InternetendearingA woman or person with feminine traits.

   K-pop girlie

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   Near-synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl

   the girlies are fighting

   Synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl

comparative girlier · superlative girliest · alternative girly

1. slangOf entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.

   The [women's] community in Japan is very tiny and very lonely. And the way that the word "lesbian" translates into Japanese, it means "women who perform sexual acts together in girlie shows." So when we defined ourselves as lesbians, there was snickering among the women.

   1979 December 1, Jil Clark, Holly Near, “Holly Near Sings for a Nuclear-Free Future”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 9

2. slangCharacteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.

   He said he wasn't paying good money for girlie hair — that's what he called it anytime we wanted to go into town to have a real haircut.

   2005, Victoria Pade, Tales From Elk Creek, page 76

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   The debut novelist M. A. Larson hails from the world of “My Little Pony,” where he is a writer on the TV show and a frequent presence at events for ­"Bronies” — boys, teenagers and grown-ups who are into “My Little Pony.” In the way that Bronies co-opted a formerly girlie form and made it unisex, Larson plays here with princesses as rescuers, not rescuees.

   2014 November 9, Julie Klam, “‘Pennyroyal Academy’ and ‘The Princess in Black’”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2014