girlfriend

substantivo

1. 1

   A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.

   Marc went to the park with his girlfriend and watched the sunset with her.

   I was playing the acoustic guitar and my girlfriend was playing the drums.

   A gentleman did not like his girl-friend to have to undergo so much unpleasant questioning.

   Want to pick some flowers, doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that.

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   antiquadoA female friend of a woman or girl.

   Mary always enjoyed hanging out with her girlfriend Jessica.

   That story should have applied to golf. I took it up in a casual way; a girl friend of my wife had stayed with us for a week-end and left her clubs behind.

   She's a very special girl (The kind of girl you want to know) / From her head down to her toenails (Down to her feet, yeah) / And she'll wait for me at backstage with her girlfriends / In a limousine (Long and black and shining bright)

   […] for the past 45 years, Neri had sat outside with her girlfriends Fotini and Eleni, two school friends who, having grown old in their company, Neri loved dearly.

3. 3

   A fellow gay man, especially a friend as opposed to a sexual partner.

   [Tim:] james huh? my lover carlos's best girlfriend is named james. [James:] yes, i know. i AM your lover carlos's best girlfriend james.

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   A term of address for a female friend or among gay men.

   [Hanque:] girlfriend - how'r we doing? [Doug:] hi hanque, i'd like a capuccino and some lobster bisque.. [Caption:] (friendliness with the waitstaff is a good sign)

verbo

1. 1

   informalTo be a girlfriend to (someone).

   I was girlfriended during the past two years by a woman who worked an average job, and while we never lived together the assumption among our friends was we'd get married one day.

   Most Black women don't spend their time sitting around and complaining about bm/wf and "girlfriending" each other.

   If money were a person, she’d be girlfriending with Oprah, sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom, and noshing with the Pope.

   She was a superwoman, she thought. […] A working, mothering, girlfriending, housekeeping superhero! You see—it could be done!

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   informalTo have (someone) as a girlfriend.

   Back when I was single, I dated and girlfriended around quite a bit and found many responses to my VW buses.

   > How does one "girlfriend", anyway? By getting a girlfriend. The act of obtaining a girlfriend is called girlfriending. Example: "...so, I hit her with the wrench, and she passed out. When she woke up, I told her that when she had ORIGINALLY gotten up, I girlfriended her and then knocked her out again, and she must have amnesia. Presto! Instant girlfriend!"

   > first of all, where are you? i haven't seen a man in amb for a long time!!! […] err, working, girlfriending, generally running out of time.

   One day I wrote down all the girls I had serous^([sic]) chance of girlfriending them.

Formas

plural

girlfriends

pretérito

girlfriended

particípio passado

girlfriended

gerúndio

girlfriending

3.ª pessoa do singular

girlfriends