girlish

English

From girl +‎ -ish.

girlish (comparative more girlish, superlative most girlish)

Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 2, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
  She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
- 1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act 1:
  Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!
- 1898, William Watson, “Song”, in The Hope of the World and Other Poems‎^[1], London: John Lane, page 41:
  April, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!
(archaic) Of or relating to girlhood.
- 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, [2]
  This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .

like a girl

Arabic: بَنَاتِيّ (banātiyy)
Belarusian: дзяво́чы (dzjavóčy), дзяво́цкі (dzjavócki)
Bulgarian: моми́чешки (momíčeški)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 少女的 (zh) (shàonǚ de)
Czech: dívčí (cs)
Dutch: meisjesachtig (nl)
Esperanto: knabina
Finnish: tyttömäinen (fi)
French: de fille (fr), de petite fille (fr), de jeune fille (fr)
Georgian: გოგოსებური (gogoseburi), ქალიშვილური (kališviluri)
German: mädchenhaft (de), Mädchen- (de)
Greek: κοριτσίστικος (el) (koritsístikos)
Hungarian: lányos (hu)
Japanese: 女の子らしい (おんなのこらしい, onnanoko rashii)
Korean: 소녀답다 (sonyeodapda)
Latin: puellāris
Latvian: meitenīgs
Macedonian: момински (mominski)
Maori: tamahine (mi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: jentete, jenteaktig, pikeaktig
Polish: dziewczęcy (pl)
Portuguese: feminino (pt)
Russian: деви́чий (ru) (devíčij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дѐвојачки, дјѐвојачки

Roman: dèvojački (sh), djèvojački (sh)
Slovak: dievčenský
Slovene: dekliški
Spanish: de niña (es)
Turkish: kızsı
Ukrainian: діво́чий (divóčyj), дівча́чий (divčáčyj), діво́цький (divócʹkyj)
Yiddish: מיידליש (meydlish)