schoolgirl

nounverbattested in dialogue

//ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l//

A girl attending school.

noun

1
A girl attending school.
That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.
Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.
“Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.

Etymology

Compound of school + girl.

verb

1
rareTo restrain in a schoolgirl pin.
Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.
She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.

Forms

plural: schoolgirls
past tense: schoolgirled
past participle: schoolgirled
present participle: schoolgirling
third person singular: schoolgirls

scholarship · A grant-in-aid to a student.school · An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an…schoolboy · A boy attending school.

schoolgirl · A girl attending school.

schooling · Training or instruction.schoolteacher · A teacher working in a school.Schultz · A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation].

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.