Meanings
plural old girls
- UKAn alumna, especially of a public school.
- UKAffectionate term of address for a woman.
Listen, old girl, I've got some news.
1 more example
"One thing," added George, after the peculiarities of the situation had been sufficiently admitted, "it's going to be the last time I'm mixed up in what isn't strictly on the level. If we get clear this once with anything like tidy, old girl, it'll be that little cottage with the pigs and poultry for a moral."
1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London
Translations
French ma vieille, ma grande
- ma vieilleAffectionate term of address for a woman
- ma grandeAffectionate term of address for a woman
Swedish lilla gumman, tjejen
- lilla gummanAffectionate term of address for a woman
- tjejenAffectionate term of address for a woman
Cite this entry
old girl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/old%20girl
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