schoolgirl

Compound of school +‎ girl.

schoolgirl (plural schoolgirls)

1. A girl attending school.

   Hypernyms: schoolchild, pupil, student

   Coordinate term: schoolboy

   • 1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street, page 33:

     That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.

   • 2006, Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream:

     Jessica expected to find her mother in her office, talking to Norm. Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.

   • 2007 April 15, Sophie Harrison, “Memoirs of a Geisha’s Sister”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.

schoolgirl (third-person singular simple present schoolgirls, present participle schoolgirling, simple past and past participle schoolgirled)

1. (transitive, wrestling, rare) To restrain in a schoolgirl pin.
   • 2004, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 57:

     Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.

   • 2017, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001, page 121:

     She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.