Thesaurus:girl
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: child or adolescent female
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- babe
- bint (slang)
- bird [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- cake [⇒ thesaurus] (affectionate)
- chick (slang)
- colleen (Irish)
- damoiselle (historical)
- damsel
- elrig (obsolete, UK, back slang)
- frail (dated, slang, possibly offensive)
- gal (colloquial, perhaps somewhat dated)
- gel (UK)
- girl
- girlie (colloquial)
- girly (childish)
- grill (internet slang)
- hottie
- lass (archaic, informal)
- lassie (Scotland, Northern UK)
- little girl
- maggie (obsolete)
- maid (dated, poetic)
- maid child (archaic)
- maiden (now chiefly literary)
- minoress (rare)
- miss
- missy
- moggy (obsolete)
- poppet
- pucelle (archaic)
- puss
- quean (Scotland)
- tart (affectionate)
- wan (Ireland)
- wench (archaic)
- woman child (archaic)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “129. infant” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “374. woman” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “girl” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.