A group of Cuban schoolgirls in 2009 British girls in school uniform Etymology
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school + girl
schoolgirl (plural schoolgirls )
A girl attending school .
Hypernyms: schoolchild , pupil , student
Coordinate term: schoolboy 1975 , John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street , page 33 :That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.
2006 , Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream :Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.
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girl attending school
Albanian: nxënëse (sq) f
Arabic: تِلْمِيذَة f ( tilmīḏa )
Belarusian: шко́льніца f ( škólʹnica ) , вучані́ца f ( vučaníca )
Bulgarian: у́ченичка f ( účenička )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女 學生 / 女 学生 ( nǚxuéshēng ) , 女生 (zh) ( nǚshēng )
Czech: školačka (cs) f , žákyně (cs) f , žačka f
Danish: skolepige c
Faroese: skúlagenta f
Finnish: koulutyttö (fi)
French: élève (fr) f , écolière (fr) f
German: Schülerin (de) f , Schulmädchen (de) n
Icelandic: skólastúlka f , skólastelpa f , námsmær f
Irish: cailín scoile m
Italian: alunna (it) f , scolara (it) f
Japanese: 女子児童 ( じょしじどう, joshi jidō ) , 女子生徒 ( じょしせいと, joshi seito ) , 女生徒 ( じょせいと, joseito ) , 女子学生 ( じょしがくせい, joshi gakusei ) , 女学生 (ja) ( じょがくせい, jogakusei ) , 女生 (ja) ( じょせい, josei )
Khmer: សិស្សស្រី ( səh srəy )
Korean: 여학생(女學生) (ko) ( yeohaksaeng ) , 녀학생 ( nyeohaksaeng ) ( North Korea )
Latin: discipula f
Latvian: skolniece f
Macedonian: ученичка f ( učenička )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skolejente m or f , skolepike m or f
Nynorsk: skolejente f , skulejente f
Polish: uczennica (pl) f
Portuguese: aluna (pt) f , estudante (pt) f
Romanian: elevă (ro) f , școlăriță (ro) f
Russian: шко́льница (ru) f ( škólʹnica ) , учени́ца (ru) f ( učeníca )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏ченица f
Roman: ȕčenica (sh) f
Slovak: školáčka f
Slovene: šolarka f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: wuknica f
Upper Sorbian: šulerka f
Swedish: skolflicka (sv) c
Ukrainian: школя́рка f ( školjárka ) , учени́ця (uk) f ( učenýcja )
Vietnamese: nữ sinh (vi)
Walloon: scolresse (wa) f
schoolgirl (third-person singular simple present schoolgirls , present participle schoolgirling , simple past and past participle schoolgirled )
( transitive , wrestling , rare ) To restrain in a schoolgirl pin .
2004 , Wrestling Observer Newsletter , page 57 :Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.
2017 , James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001 , page 121 :She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.