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单词 girl guide
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Girl Guiden.

Brit. /ˌɡəːl ˈɡʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌɡərl ˈɡaɪd/
Forms: also with lower-case initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: girl n., guide n.
Etymology: < girl n. + guide n., after Boy Scout n. Compare Girl Scout n.
A member of any of the national guiding organizations (e.g. Girlguiding UK, formerly the (Girl) Guides Association) formed as a counterpart to the Scouts Association and providing activities and challenges for girls through regular meetings, camps, etc.; = guide n. 2d. Also in extended use (frequently attributive), implying practicality, helpfulness, innocence, etc. Cf. Girl Scout n.The Girl Guides Association was founded in 1910 by Lord Baden-Powell (1857–1941).Girlguiding UK is divided into several sections, by age: see also rainbow n. 6 and brownie n.1 2. There is also a Senior section for members aged from 14 to 25.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides
Boy Scout1908
patrol leader1908
scout1908
scoutmaster1908
tenderfoot1908
captain1909
Girl Guide1909
Girl Scout1909
lieutenant1909
pathfinder1911
sea scout1911
rosebud1914
brownie1916
sixer1916
tenderpad1916
Brown Owl1918
rover1918
Rover Scout1918
ranger1920
tawny owl1921
Cub1922
Akela1924
scouter1930
Guider1931
den mother1936
Queen's Guide1946
Queen's Scout1952
Venture Scout1966
Beaver1975
skipper1986
1909 Boy Scouts' Headquarters' Gaz. Nov. 12/1 (heading) The scheme for ‘Girl Guides’.
1909 Boy Scouts' Headquarters' Gaz. Nov. 12/2 Girl Guides. Training and Organisation. Uniform.—Jersey of Company Colour..Skirt, Knickers, Stockings dark blue.
1932 H. Nicolson Public Faces viii. 213 She entered, swinging her hips a little with what Shorland had once called her girl-guide gait.
1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner x. 182 Don't get nasty with me, just because you did your girl guide act, and I wouldn't play boy scout.
1970 Times 16 May 27/3 Gone are the days of ‘roughing it’ which you may remember from Boy Scout or Girl Guide camps.
1999 Independent (Nexis) 14 July 12 The team have lined up nine oildrums in sets of three, and are lashing them together. I'm no Girl Guide, but even I can see that it's not going to work.

Derivatives

ˌGirl ˈGuider n. an adult leader of a group of Guides.
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1921 C. W. Saleeby Eugenic Prospect i. xi. 103 The pity of it is that his [sc. Sir Robert Baden Powell's] nation-saving work should be hampered as it is by the chronic dearth of scout masters and girl guiders.
1998 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 18 Apr. 60 Mrs Green worked as a housemother in a children's home, and she has been a girl guider and a Sunday school teacher as well.
ˌgirl-ˈguidey adj. = girl-guidish adj.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [adjective] > members of scouts or guides
girl-guidish1922
girl-guidey1931
scoutmasterish1937
scoutmasterly1954
1931 R. Aldington Colonel's Daughter iii. 120 ‘I don't know anything about such things,’ she said, very Girl-Guidey and pure.
1993 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Apr. In some East African tribes, female initiation takes a girl-guidey form, with camps in the bush and songs about wifely duties.
ˈgirl-ˌguidish adj. relating to or characteristic of a Guide.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [adjective] > members of scouts or guides
girl-guidish1922
girl-guidey1931
scoutmasterish1937
scoutmasterly1954
1922 L. M. Middleton Happy Adventurers viii. 301 Her short, blue-serge skirt..made no pretence at hiding her serviceable blue knickers, from which emerged a pair of useful girl-guidish legs.
1963 Listener 10 Jan. 96/3 If occasionally girl-guidish, she has a sharp eye.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 25 May (Review section) 36 Podger's introductions brimmed with girl-guidish enthusiasm, but they certainly jollied things along.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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