English
Noun
little girl (plural little girls)
- A female child, especially one younger than ten years of age.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:girl
1904, Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Little Girl in Old Chicago:More than ever I wished she was my sister and that mother could watch over her. She would gladly, I knew. A little girl, barely twelve years old and not large for her age.
2000 May 31, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):My ... what a sweet little girl!
- (idiomatic, slang) One's daughter.
My little girl's getting married next week!
- (derogatory) A weak-willed or effeminate person.
- Synonyms: mollusc, nose of wax, pushover
- May 1 2000, TV.com - Holy Crap! Episode Recap:
- Laurie tells him to stop being such a little girl and do something bad for once.
Derived terms
Translations
a female child
- Arabic: طِفْلة f (ṭifla)
- Belarusian: дзяўчы́нка f (dzjaŭčýnka), дзяўча́ f (dzjaŭčá)
- Breton: plac'hig (br) f, merc'hig (br) f
- Bulgarian: моми́ченце n (momíčence), дево́йче n (devójče)
- Burmese: ကောင်မလေး (my) (kaungma.le:)
- Catalan: noieta f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 小女孩 (xiǎonǚhái), 女孩子 (zh) (nǚháizi)
- Czech: holčička (cs) f
- Dutch: meisje (nl) n
- Finnish: pikkutyttö (fi)
- French: fillette (fr) f, jeune fille (fr) f, petite (fr) f, petite fille (fr) f, gamine (fr) f
- German: Mädchen (de) n, Mädelein n, Mägdelein (de) n (dated)
- Greek: κοριτσάκι (el) n (koritsáki)
- Hungarian: kislány (hu)
- Irish: cailín (ga) m, cailíneog f
- Italian: bambina (it) f
- Japanese: 女の子 (ja) (おんなのこ, onna no ko), 女児 (ja) (じょじ, joji)
- Korean: 소녀(少女) (ko) (sonyeo), 여자아이 (ko) (yeojaai), 녀자아이 (nyeojaai) (North Korea)
- Macedonian: девојче n (devojče)
- Marathi: लहान मुलगी f (lahān mulgī)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: småjente m or f, lita / liten (no) jente (no) m or f / pike (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: småjente f, lita jente f
- Occitan: filheta f, drolleta f
- Old English: mæġþ f, mæġdenċild n
- Polish: dziewczynka (pl) f
- Portuguese: menininha (pt) f, garotinha f, miúda (pt) f
- Romani: ćhajorri f (Romani), raklǒrri f (non-Romani)
- Romanian: fetiță (ro) f
- Russian: де́вочка (ru) f (dévočka), девчо́нка (ru) f (devčónka)
- Scottish Gaelic: caileag (gd) f, nighneag (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дево̀јчица f, дјево̀јчица f, ђево̀јчица f (Montenegrin), де̏клица f (Kajkavian)
- Roman: devòjčica (sh) f, дјево́јчица f, đevòjčica f (Montenegrin), dȅklica (sh) f (Kajkavian)
- Slovak: dievčatko n
- Slovene: deklica (sl) f
- Southern Altai: кызычак (kïzïčak)
- Spanish: niña (es) f, chica (es) f, chiquita (es) f, chiquitina f, nena (es) f
- Swedish: flicka (sv) c, flickebarn (sv) n, tös (sv) c, jänta (sv) c, tjej (sv) c
- Ukrainian: ді́вчинка f (dívčynka), дівча́ n (divčá), дівча́тко n (divčátko)
- Vietnamese: con gái (vi)
- Welsh: merchig f, geneth (cy) f, genethig f
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a weak or effeminate person
See also