For the usual Old English word, see maiden. To break the status quo, Jun'ichi's friends have. Girl Friday "resourceful young woman assistant" is from 1940, a reference to "Robinson Crusoe." Girl Scout is from 1909. The 'season of love' has arrived and it seems that finding himself a girlfriend was harder than Jun'ichi believed. "She's the girl next door, all right," said one Hollywood admirer.
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There, as the latest movie colony "girl next door," sunny-faced Doris soon became a leading movie attraction as well as the world's top female recording star. Doris was a big vocalist even before she hit the movies in 1948. Or.let’s be real I have no idea what I was doing here but IG is straight squashing my engagement so here’s a photo of me with my shirt off drinking my bro-tastic half gal of water I carry with my everywhere. Girl next door as a type of unflashy attractiveness is recorded by 1953 (the title of a 20th Century Fox film starring June Haver). TBT to that one time I was pretending to be in a Nike ad. Old girl in reference to a woman of any age is recorded from 1826. Applied to "any young unmarried woman" since mid-15c. Specific meaning of "female child" is late 14c. Shinozuka Yuuji Hitozuma Life One time gal COLOR Ch. "Probably most of them arose as jocular transferred uses of words that had originally different meaning". Like boy, lass, lad it is of more or less obscure origin. A former folk-etymology derivation from Latin garrulus "chattering, talkative" is now discarded. The g-r words denote young animals, children, and all kinds of creatures considered immature, worthless, or past their prime.Īnother candidate is Old English gierela "garment" (for possible sense evolution in this theory, compare brat). The final consonant in girl is a diminutive suffix. It is part of a large group of Germanic words whose root begins with a g or k and ends in r. Liberman (2008) writes: Girl does not go back to any Old English or Old Germanic form. One guess leans toward an unrecorded Old English *gyrele, from Proto-Germanic *gurwilon-, diminutive of *gurwjoz (apparently also represented by Low German gære "boy, girl," Norwegian dialectal gorre, Swedish dialectal gurre "small child," though the exact relationship, if any, between all these is obscure), from PIE *ghwrgh-, also found in Greek parthenos "virgin." But this involves some objectionable philology. 1300, gyrle "child, young person" (of either sex but most frequently of females), of unknown origin.