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Girlie vs Feminine - What's the difference?

girlie | feminine |

As adjectives the difference between girlie and feminine

is that girlie is (slang) of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing while feminine is .

As a noun girlie

is (slang) a magazine targeted to an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women.

girlie

English

Alternative forms

* girly

Noun

(en noun)
  • (slang) A magazine targeted to an adult male audience and containing nude or semi-nude photographs of women.
    • When Grandma came to visit, the teen-aged boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.
  • (colloquial) A young girl.
    • "Daddy's little girlie ."

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Of entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.

    • feminine

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the female gender; womanly.
  • Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male.
  • Belonging to females; typically used by females.
    • Mary, Elizabeth, and Edith are feminine names.
  • Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive.
  • * :
    • Her heavenly form Angelic, but more soft and feminine .
  • * :
    • Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace.
  • * :
    • Ninus being esteemed no man of war at all, but altogether feminine , and subject to ease and delicacy.
  • (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.

    • Synonyms

    * (of the female sex): female, womanly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): caring, ladylike, nurturing

    Antonyms

    * (of the female sex): male, manly * (having qualities stereotypical of the female gender): butch, masculine * (grammar): masculine, neuter

    Derived terms

    * femininely * feminineness * feminine rhyme (prosody) * femininity * feminize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is feminine.
  • A woman.
  • * :
    • They guide the feminines toward the palace.
  • (grammar) The feminine gender.
  • (grammar) A word of the feminine gender.
  • * Latham:
    • There are but few true feminines in English.