schoolgirlism
English edit
Etymology edit
schoolgirl + -ism
Noun edit
schoolgirlism (uncountable)
- Schoolgirlish attitudes or behaviour.
- Synonym: schoolgirlishness
- Hypernyms: girlism, girlishness
- 1858, A. von Beresford, Millicent Or Our English Homes of the Present Day:
- […] out came the candle from its deal receptacle, and the Amelias, Janes and Carolines, betook themselves to cakes and novels, devouring both with an ardour that only schoolgirlism can produce.
- 1860, Dublin University Magazine, page 548:
- These things should have something of the positive underneath, or they degenerate into conventionality and schoolgirlism.