Definition of "girly" []

• Variant of girlie. (adjective)

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• "This is no easy task—especially if you want to rate femininity without bringing in your own subjectivity or particular cultural connotations of what makes a name girly."
• "Equally girly is Berber Soepboer and Michiel Schuurman's Color-in-Dress (2008), which presents a cotton dress printed with a mod-looking digital pattern alongside markers for hand-coloring the dress as you see fit."
• "And I'm very glad to see she isn't being stuck in girly, comedic roles."