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Girlie vs Girlish - What's the difference?

girlie | girlish |

As adjectives the difference between girlie and girlish

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

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.

    • girlish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a girl; feminine.
  • Of or relating to girlhood.
  • * Carew
    • In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

    See also

    * boyish * womanish