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valley girl en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Valley, short for San Fernando Valley. Popularized by the Frank/Moon Zappa song Valley Girl (1982).

Meanings

1. (US, slang) A girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
   • 2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
   • She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure 1982, Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa, “Valley Girl”, in Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch:
   • They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet. 2002 April 20, Joseph Kahn, “San Fernando Valley Looks To a Life After Los Angeles”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
2. (broadly, derogatory, often) Any girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.
   • Like the area in California that Miss Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girls of Long Island, who are sometimes referred to simply as Island Vals. 1982 September 15, Ron Alexander, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Coordinates

valley boy

Deriveds

Valley Girl

Relateds

valspeak

Translations (6)

pt betinha (superficial woman) · pl płytka kobieta (superficial woman) · cmn 山谷女孩 (superficial woman) · it vanesia (superficial woman) · it pariolina (superficial woman) · pt patricinha (superficial woman)

wikipedia: Valley Girl (song)