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girlish is an adjective meaning "befitting or characteristic of a young girl". It is pronounced /ˈɡɝlɪʃ/ — GUR-lish. It carries one recorded sense.
befitting or characteristic of a young girl
“girlish charm”
“a dress too schoolgirlish for office wear”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for girlish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.