girlishly en · ADV
Etymology
Etymology tree English girlish Middle English -ly English -ly English girlishly From girlish + -ly.
Meanings
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In a girlish manner.
Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."
1879, George Eliot, chapter 12, in Impressions of Theophrastus Such:"What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […]"
1951, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 10, in World So Wide:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most girlishly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more girlishly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (1)
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