girlfriendhood

English

Etymology

From girlfriend +‎ -hood.

Noun

girlfriendhood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a girlfriend.
   • 2007 August 13, Virginia Heffernan, “It’s Lauren vs. Heidi in Battle of the Ex-BFFs”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But by the season’s end a Machiavellian figure named Spencer had decided to indenture Heidi to girlfriendhood.

   • 2007, Mary Matalin, Letters to My Daughters - Page 103:

     What I missed in girlfriendhood, I made up in adventures.

See also

• boyfriendhood