girl

Meanings

Noun

• A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.
• A young female animal.
• A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
• A female servant; a maid.
• A queen (the playing card.)
• One's girlfriend.
• One's daughter.
• A roebuck two years old.
• Cocaine, especially in powder form.
• A female (tree, gene, etc).
• A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.

Verb

• To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
• To staff with or as a girl or girls.

Origin

• Image:Tamil girls group.jpg|thumb|right|A group of girls in Sri Lanka.
• From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle, of uncertain origin. Probably from Old English *gyrle, *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilaz, a diminutive form of Proto-Germanic *gurwijaz (compare North Frisian gör, Low German Gör, Göre, German Göre, dialectal Norwegian gorre, dialectal Swedish garre, gurre), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (compare Old Irish gair, Ancient Greek χρεώ, χρήσθαι, Sanskrit ह्रस्व).