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puppygirlhood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpʌ.piˌɡɜɹlˌhʊd/ (General-American)
  • /ˈpʌ.piˌɡɜːlˌhʊd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From puppygirl + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (neologism, nonce-word, uncountable) The state or condition of being a puppygirl.
    • The drawing illustrates this transition by showing a passage from youthful partying to adult office work – but one within which the trans woman in question is still a dog. The potentially queerphobic mandate of leaving the childhood follies of erotic extravagance for the sake of gainful employment is thus juxtaposed with the affirmation of a possibility to remain a dog woman even as one ages out of puppygirlhood. 2025, Jay Szpilka, “What Puppygirls Know? The (in)Human Pedagogy of a Trans Feminine Style”, in Australian Feminist Studies, →DOI, page 20 of 1–24:
    • Catgirls were "early transfem phase" at a macro level, purely a want of aesthetic and social appeal of anime catgirls. ¶ Puppygirlhood is the acceptance of ones own place in society as an Average Jane and being able to work on what you actually want to exhibit as a person beyond 2024 March 15, @FatesWright, X (post), archived from the original on 08 Jul 2026: