Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to girl
Participle: girled
Gerund: girling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | girl |
| you | girl |
| he;she;it | girls |
| we | girl |
| you | girl |
| they | girl |
Perfect
| I | have girled |
| you | have girled |
| he;she;it | has girled |
| we | have girled |
| you | have girled |
| they | have girled |
Past
| I | girled |
| you | girled |
| he;she;it | girled |
| we | girled |
| you | girled |
| they | girled |
Pluperfect
| I | had girled |
| you | had girled |
| he;she;it | had girled |
| we | had girled |
| you | had girled |
| they | had girled |
Future
| I | will girl |
| you | will girl |
| he;she;it | will girl |
| we | will girl |
| you | will girl |
| they | will girl |
Future Perfect
| I | will have girled |
| you | will have girled |
| he;she;it | will have girled |
| we | will have girled |
| you | will have girled |
| they | will have girled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | girl |
| you | girl |
| he;she;it | girl |
| we | girl |
| you | girl |
| they | girl |
Perfect
| I | have girled |
| you | have girled |
| he;she;it | have girled |
| we | have girled |
| you | have girled |
| they | have girled |
Imperfect
| I | girled |
| you | girled |
| he;she;it | girled |
| we | girled |
| you | girled |
| they | girled |
Pluperfect
| I | had girled |
| you | had girled |
| he;she;it | had girled |
| we | had girled |
| you | had girled |
| they | had girled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would girl |
| you | would girl |
| he;she;it | would girl |
| we | would girl |
| you | would girl |
| they | would girl |
Perfect
| I | would have girled |
| you | would have girled |
| he;she;it | would have girled |
| we | would have girled |
| you | would have girled |
| they | would have girled |
Imperative
| you | girl |
| we | Let's girl |
| you | girl |
Verbs conjugated like 'girl'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'girl'
birl,
dirl,
gill,
gird,
girn,
giro,
girt,
gurl,
pirl,
tirl,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-ilā. Ultimately of unknown origin. Doublet of gal/gyal and gyaru.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Yola gurl (“child, girl”), German Gör, Göre (“brat, cheeky young child”), Low German Gör (“child”).
Sample Sentences
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Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke. [2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, page 293:]
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One can argue that the genre “yuppified” the popular romance novel or perhaps “girled” the not especially gender-specific concept of the young urban professional. [2011, Stephanie Harzewski, Chick Lit and Postfeminism:]
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Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...] [1949, The New Yorker:]
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Her first shock came when the ship on which she and her husband arrived was met by three boats “girled” by “great, splendid creatures, as tall as our millionaires' tallest daughters, and as strong-looking as any of our college-girl athletes,” ... [1961, The Georgia Review, volume 15, page 228:]
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She and her Altrurian diplomat husband, arriving there by sea, are greeted by flower-laden boats, each not manned, but girled by six rowers, who pulled as true a stroke as I ever saw. [1986, Marcus Cunliffe, The Literature of the United States, New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books, →ISBN:]
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To her disappointment, the chatty Carlene DuBois wasn't behind the desk; instead it was manned—or girled—by a frothy little blonde who barely looked old enough to be out of high school. [2009, Linda Howard, Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 220:]