ADJ.
little
VERB + GIRLISH
face, glowing, laugh, networking, want, weep
GIRLISH + NOUN
beauty, complexion, glee, laughter, personality
PREP.
after, with
ADV.
lightheartedly, then
adj
Like (that of) a girl; feminine.
She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
Three little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!
Of or relating to girlhood.
1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: E. Law, 1769, pp. 119-20, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9878/pg9878-images.html This village was the birth-place of Thomasine Bonauenture, I know not, whether by descent, or euent, so called: for whiles in her girlish age she kept sheepe on the foreremembered moore, it chanced that a London merchant passing by, saw her […] .
adjective — befitting or characteristic of a young girl
She saw her own face, glowing with girlish beauty, and illuminating all the interior of the dusky mirror in which she had been wont to gaze at it.
WiktionaryThree little maids from school are we, / Pert as a school-girl well can be, / Filled to the brim with girlish glee, / Three little maids from school!
WiktionaryApril, April, / Laugh thy girlish laughter; / Then, the moment after, / Weep thy girlish tears!
WiktionaryHer girlish complexion belied the fact that she was over forty.
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In some senses, girlish is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.