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girlwatching en · NOUN

Etymology

From girl + watching, perhaps modelled on birdwatching.

Meanings

  1. (informal, rare, uncountable) Observing young women as a recreational activity.
    • […] end up as hotel detectives in a Texas resort teeming with Nazi agents. They still find time for one of their favorite pastimes: girlwatching. 2005, Mardy Grothe, Viva la repartee:
    • He didn't have much heart for his teaching, either, and he found himself taking to girlwatching on campus. 1985, Joseph M Ferguson, The Summerfield stories:
    • He experienced erotic arousal, which included the slow secretion of genital moistness, from being with her, and also from girlwatching. 1972, John Money, Anke A Ehrhardt, Man and woman, boy and girl:
    • […] stylized individual player performance, girlwatching in the stands, blimp shots of the stadium, and lots of other irrelevant hype. 1979, David L Altheide, Robert P Snow, Media logic:
    • […] they are difficult or impossible even by definition: like inventing a new platitude (difficult), or girlwatching in the Men's Room (can't be done). 1991, Howard Nemerov, A Howard Nemerov Reader: