homegirln.
/ˈhəʊmɡəːl/, U.S. /ˈhoʊmˌɡərl/ 1. A young woman or girl who likes home or staying at home; a domesticated, shy, or unworldly young woman or girl. Sometimes depreciative, implying timidity or lack of sophistication.
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the mind > emotion > fear > timidity > [noun] > quality of shyness > one who is shy
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > attachment to home life > person
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [noun] > artlessness, guilessness, or innocence > person > young woman
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1847 Graham's Mag. Sept. 151/1 Feeling as awkward and shy as a home-girl might be expected to feel, thrown, for the first time, in a crowd of nearly a hundred girls.
1873 Our Boys & Girls Sept. 607/1 Rose will be a home girl, Miss Churchill. The credit of our family will be saved.
1905 Mass. Ploughman 18 Feb. 6/1 The home girl..suffers from many things which do not affect the business girl, the society woman and the girl athlete.
1980 E. A. Folb Runnin' down some Lines iii. 77 The expressions homeboy or homegirl, when used in a pejorative sense, often refer to someone who sticks close to home (close to his or her mother) and has little feel for life on the streets.
1992 Voice 22 Dec. 18/1 She said we want you to go to college so you don't turn out to be so much of a homegirl.
2. Originally U.S.
a. Chiefly U.S. and (later also) South African. A woman or girl from one's home town, region, or neighbourhood.
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the world > people > nations > compatriots > [noun] > compatriot > woman
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] > female
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1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xliii. 325 Just think of a Gurney jilted by a Yankee!.. It will teach the young fool to look at some of our home girls.
1934 T. Wilder Heaven's my Destination iii. 53 And this is Mississippi, the sweetest and snappiest little home-girl in Oklahoma, if I do say it.
a1956 H. I. E. Dhlomo Coll. Wks. (1985) 402 Bob had married his ‘home’ girl, Zodwa Valo, whom he had known since childhood.
1968 Amer. Speech 1967 42 238 Home boy and..home girl and home people, denote individuals who come from the same hometown as the speaker.
2003 P. Mpe in D. Chislett Urban 03 45 We were a homeboy and a homegirl on the verge of doing our thing in the city.
b. slang. A young African-American or Hispanic woman, esp. one who is from an inner-city area or who is a member of a street gang. In later use also: a woman or girl belonging to the hip-hop subculture (cf. sense 2c).
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1974 Los Angeles Times 5 Dec. (Southeast ed.) xi. 1/6 There were reports of ‘homeboys’, as the Chicos [sc. a gang] refer to themselves, beating up ‘homegirls’—a clear violation of another barrio rule.
1985 ‘J. Blowdryer’ Mod. Eng. 64 Homeboy, a gang member... Homegirl..is the female version.
1988 N.Y. Amsterdam News 15 Oct. 24/4 Female rapper, the Real Roxanne, has new hit single... The homeboys and homegirls came out in bunches for her at the Palladium last week.
1991 Allure June 71/2 With his frayed denim, quilted baseball caps, and oversize gold necklaces..Kaiser Karl was obviously evoking homegirl chic.
1993 L. J. Rodriguez Always Running viii. 198 Many homegirls become mothers, although they are unfinished children.
1998 Chicago Tribune 27 May i. 13/3 The yawning chasm amazingly crossed by Beatty's 60ish Bulworth and Halle Berry's twentysomething ghetto homegirl.
2008 A. Smith Judas Horse 240 What's a homegirl doing way up here, no brown faces in the whole damn state?
c. slang. Originally esp. among urban black and Hispanic youths: a woman or girl belonging to one's close group of friends; a female member of one's gang. Frequently with possessive adjective.Often with admixture of sense 2a, referring to a group or gang originating from the same area or neighbourhood.Since the early 1980s the term has been strongly associated with hip-hop subculture.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > female friend > from one's own neighbourhood
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1974 J. C. Quicker in W. B. Sanders Juvenile Delinquency (1976) vi. 140 That's when I said I was only going to hang around with my homegirls.
1980 Los Angeles Times 4 May (Southeast ed.) ix. 1/2 His homeboys and homegirls like to see their names in print—preferably on walls throughout their neighborhood.
1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 14 June m2 My 17-year-old happens to be lolling about our crib. Since he has considerable homeboys and homegirls (friends) in Halifax high schools, he's worth consulting.
1990 G. Jacobs Doowutchyalike (song) in L. A. Stanley Rap: The Lyrics (1992) 77 Homegirls, for once forget you got class See a guy you like, just grab him in the biscuits And doowutchyalike.
1999 J. Morgan When Chickenheads come Home to Roost 23 While writing this book, I went from sharing our funky, deep woman's shit with my homegirls to putting it down on paper for general public consumption.
2005 F. L. Johnson Other Men's Wives (2007) xxii. 146 Hey, Desiree, what's up, homegirl?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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