schoolgirln.

1658 R. Flecknoe Enigmaticall Characters 43 As for her other qualities of curious handling the Bodkin and Needle (at which every School-girle and Chamber-Maid is as good as she) I say nothing 'cause they are not worth the speaking off.

1678 T. Duffett Psyche Debauch'd i. i. 3 School-Girls that have in the morn Been Cock a Hoop, and rul'd the Roast.

1725 Orig. & Genuine Lett. to Tatler & Spectator II. 228 The fright has occasion'd us poor school-girls to beg you will advise how we shall revenge the injury done.

1778 F. Burney Evelina I. xi. 36 I did not choose to tell him it [sc. her fear] was owing to my never before dancing but with a school-girl.

1822 Rambler's Mag. 1 Aug. 345 My dear! you should not be afraid to read what I am not afraid to hear; I am not a school girl.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xiii. 240 You play a little, I see; like any other English school-girl.

1874 Overland Monthly Mar. 270/1 She was not a school girl at all, munching mint-drops and lozenges, but a beautiful young lady.

1907 E. Nesbit in Strand Mag. June 522/2 You're a schoolgirl, Montague—a silly schoolgirl. I believe you are frightened of the thing.

1963 M. Kendon Ladies College, Goudhurst 8 Dripping..spread on ‘tokes’, was eaten for eleven o'clock lunch by schoolgirls for well nigh forty years.

2007 Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Feb. 39 Most schoolgirls expect a little extra homework as they approach their A-level exams.

1845 A. Marsh Love & Duty xii. 43 You know how excessively I dislike this sort of vulgar, schoolgirl talk.

1897 B. Harte Three Partners in Wks. (1907) XV. 153 Mrs. Barker's scant schoolgirl knowledge was touched by this gentleman, who..explained to her the libretto of a risky opéra bouffe.

1912 E. Ferber Buttered Side Down (1941) 9 She wiped off the cold cream and salt tears with a dry towel, did her hair in a schoolgirl braid and tied it with a big bow.

1915 in P. Farrer Confid. Corr. on Cross Dressing (1997) 104 A schoolgirl frock of blue serge dropped over my head and hooked together.

1930 ‘H. Z. Smith’ Not so Quiet (1988) vi. 136 Our girls love their jobs; they are always joking and playing schoolgirl pranks on one another.

1987 A. Theroux Adultery (1997) 61 Martina in a black schoolgirl jumper.

1994 Face Sept. 26 The world has been waiting for a male equivalent of the touted ‘schoolgirl look’.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Oct. ii. 11/4 He likes to cuddle, she likes to dress him up in a schoolgirl uniform.

1899 Sunday Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 19 Feb. 18/3 The turquoise is an uninteresting stone, but it suits well enough a pink and white school girl complexion.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock v. ii. 196 The long parade of posters..Guinness is Good for You, Try a Worthington, Keep that Schoolgirl Complexion.

2006 Harper's Bazaar (Nexis) 1 Sept. 420 She still looks picture-book radiant with her schoolgirl complexion and blond mane.

1909 Hutchinson (Kansas) Daily News 30 Sept. 8/3 There is just one evil in school girl crushes that I do want to inveigh against.

1963 P. Moyes Murder à la Mode iv. 69 Olwen had a sort of schoolgirl crush on her.

2010 Express (Nexis) 16 Sept. 20 The actress..admits she couldn't help having a schoolgirl crush on bigscreen hardman Mickey Rourke while filming their new movie.

1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory I. v. 109 She could only say, ‘Bon soir, madame,’ in her school-girl French, as she dragged herself slowly up the little winding stair.

1909 W. J. Locke Septimus iv. 49 ‘Will a hundred francs be of any use to you?’ she asked, in her schoolgirl French.

1989 Woman's Realm 11 Apr. 58/3 Before I met Michel I only spoke schoolgirl French, but I'm surprised by how much I understand now.

1882 Atlantic Monthly July 143/1 The Villa Bohemia..is the light and trifling story of how several girls..were captured by their natural enemy. It is written in school-girl English.

1939 C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 32 Frl. Hippi..speaks schoolgirl English with a slight American accent.

2006 Observer (Nexis) 3 Dec. 72 She saw a job ad for an office manager in an American property company. She hoped her schoolgirl English would be good enough to get her in the door.

1881 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 1 Dec. She loved St. Omar, truly fondly, and deeply—a feeling utterly unlike the blind, senseless, school-girl passion which she had entertained for Cliff Dallas.

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xvii. 312 You still cherish a romantic schoolgirl passion for him.

2001 Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. A story of throbbing schoolgirl passions, badly behaved teachers and strangulation by ligature.

1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. vii. 162 Miss Stewart favoured me with her foolish little giggle, adding in a proper school-girl tone that she was very glad to have been the occasion of doing me service.

1908 E. G. Henham Furze the Cruel xxvii. 391 ‘I think you are such a nice boy, Aubrey,’ said a small voice in sweet school-girl tones.

2000 N. Woodruff Someone Else's Child 16 She had replied in such a schoolgirl tone—..talking as if he were a guidance counselor or someone's dad.

1860 Dublin Univ. Mag. May 548/1 These things should have something of the positive underneath, or they degenerate into conventionality and schoolgirlism.

1901 Academy 8 June 495/2 Southport, with its sponge-cakeyness and school-girlism is surely worth study.

1990 United Press Internat. (Nexis) 17 Oct. More schoolgirl-ism were superwide suspenders.

1850 Knickerbocker Nov. 448 All the women had their hair braided in two long locks which..which gave them a school-girly look quite out of keeping with the cool, deliberate manner in which they puffed their cigars.

1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah i. ii It isn't nearly so school-girly as it used to be, is it?

1998 Daily Tel. 12 June 13/3 [The women] share a cabin: bunk beds, two desks, plenty of cupboard space and absolutely no schoolgirly posters of Tom Cruise on the walls.