girl

A female child.

I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.

A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.

He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.

A term of address to a female (see usage notes)

Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?

"My dear girl, what has he done?" said Mrs. Mallowe, sweetly. It is noticeable that ladies of a certain age call each other "dear girl," just as commissioners of twenty-eight years' standing address their equals in the Civil List as "my boy."

One's girlfriend.

He lucked out with that girl of his. Smart, sweet, sassy, and pretty too.

There isn't any guy going to steal my girl!

One's daughter.

Your girl turned up on our doorstep. She was crying about the argument on the playground. We let her vent.

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

Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.

One can argue that the genre “yuppified” the popular romance novel or perhaps “girled” the not especially gender-specific concept of the young urban professional.

To staff with or as a girl or girls.

Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]

Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ...

A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle.