单词 | girlery |
释义 | girleryn. Girls collectively; the world of girls; a gathering of girls. Also (slang): a brothel. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] > girls collectively girlism1788 girlery1806 girldom1848 giggle1940 brush1941 1806 C. Lamb Let. 26 June in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 233 There were two young girls—the very head & sum of the Girlery was two young girls. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 103 When one considers from what originals he painted his portraits of Edina's girlery. 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 149/1 Girlery,..a brothel. 1940 M. Sadleir Fanny by Gaslight i. 270 He offered her a job as barmaid... Her new place of business was a girlery as well as a wine-bar. 2000 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 June a11 A perfect symbol of today's girlery is the Cartoon Network show ‘The Powerpuff Girls’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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