girlie

noun

1. 1

   slangA magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.

   When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.

2. 2

   A young girl.

   Near-synonyms: baby girl; see also Thesaurus:girl

   And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]

3. 3

   A woman or person with feminine traits.

   Near-synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl

   K-pop girlie

   the girlies are fighting

adjective

1. 1

   slangOf entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.

   The [women's] community in Japan is very tiny and very lonely. And the way that the word "lesbian" translates into Japanese, it means "women who perform sexual acts together in girlie shows." So when we defined ourselves as lesbians, there was snickering among the women.

2. 2

   slangCharacteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.

   He said he wasn't paying good money for girlie hair — that's what he called it anytime we wanted to go into town to have a real haircut.

   The debut novelist M. A. Larson hails from the world of “My Little Pony,” where he is a writer on the TV show and a frequent presence at events for ­"Bronies” — boys, teenagers and grown-ups who are into “My Little Pony.” In the way that Bronies co-opted a formerly girlie form and made it unisex, Larson plays here with princesses as rescuers, not rescuees.

Forms

plural

girlies

comparative

girlier

superlative

girliest