girlishly

1. 1.

   like a girl

   “she was girlishly shy”

Questions about girlishly

What does girlishly mean?

girlishly means "like a girl".

How many syllables are in girlishly?

girlishly has 3 syllables: gir-lish-ly. The stress falls on "gir". In IPA it is /ˈɡɝlɪʃli/.

Is girlishly a common word?

girlishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.