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new girl
[new a. 8.]
A schoolgirl during her first term(s) at a school, esp. one at an English boarding-school; also transf., a (young) woman newly come into a given set of circumstances. Also (with hyphen) attrib. or as adj. Cf. new boy.
1853Mrs. Gaskell Ruth I. i. 16 Most new girls get impatient at first; but it goes off. 1924D. Moore Fen's First Term v. 59 A dozen people charged hospitably at the new girl with biscuits and milk. 1936M. Kennedy Together & Apart i. 130 New girls are always sort of freaks. 1951N. Mitford Blessing i. viii. 93 She was a new girl, she must watch her step. 1968‘R. Llewellyn’ End of Rug (1969) xix. 151, I went from school to school... I was rather new-girl at times, of course. A little lonely. |