schoolgirl

English

A group of Cuban schoolgirls in 2009

Etymology

school +‎ girl

Noun

schoolgirl (plural schoolgirls)

1. A girl attending school.

   Coordinate term: schoolboy

   Hypernyms: schoolchild, pupil, student

   • 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.

Derived terms

• Kirkman's schoolgirl problem
• schoolgirldom
• schoolgirlhood
• schoolgirlish
• schoolgirlism
• schoolgirl pin
• schoolgirly

Translations

girl attending school

• Albanian: nxënëse (sq) f
• Arabic: تِلْمِيذَة‎ f (tilmīḏa)
• Belarusian: шко́льніца f (škólʹnica), вучані́ца f (vučaníca)
• Bulgarian: у́ченичка f (účenička)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女學生／女学生 (nǚxuéshēng), 女生 (zh) (nǚshēng)

• Czech: školačka (cs) f, žákyně (cs) f, žačka f
• Danish: skolepige c
• Finnish: koulutyttö (fi)
• French: élève (fr) f, écolière (fr) f
• German: Schülerin (de) f, Schulmädchen (de) n
• Icelandic: skólastúlka f, skólastelpa f, námsmær f
• Irish: cailín scoile m
• Italian: alunna (it) f, scolara (it) f
• Japanese: 女子児童 (じょしじどう, joshi jidō), 女子生徒 (じょしせいと, joshi seito), 女生徒 (じょせいと, joseito), 女子学生 (じょしがくせい, joshi gakusei), 女学生 (ja) (じょがくせい, jogakusei), 女生 (ja) (じょせい, josei)
• Khmer: សិស្សស្រី (səh srəy)
• Korean: 여학생(女學生) (ko) (yeohaksaeng), 녀학생 (nyeohaksaeng) (North Korea)
• Latin: discipula f
• Latvian: skolniece f
• Macedonian: ученичка f (učenička)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skolejente m or f, skolepike m or f

  Nynorsk: skolejente f, skulejente f

• Polish: uczennica (pl) f
• Portuguese: aluna f
• Romanian: elevă (ro) f, școlăriță (ro) f
• Russian: шко́льница (ru) f (škólʹnica), учени́ца (ru) f (učeníca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏ченица f

  Roman: ȕčenica (sh) f

• Slovak: školáčka f
• Slovene: šolarka f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wuknica f

• Ukrainian: школя́рка f (školjárka), учени́ця (uk) f (učenýcja)
• Vietnamese: nữ sinh (vi)
• Walloon: scolresse (wa) f

Verb

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.