valley girl

See also: Valley Girl and Valley girl

English

Alternative forms

• Valley girl, Valley Girl, valley-girl

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

valley girl (plural valley girls)

1. (US, slang) A girl or young woman from San Fernando Valley.
   • 2010, John C. Wells, accents map

     Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

Usage notes

Girls from this area are often stereotyped by outsiders as superficial and material. As such, even a girl not from the San Fernando Valley may be referred to as a valley girl, almost always pejoratively, if they are perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.

Coordinate terms

• valley boy

Translations

superficial woman

• Portuguese: patricinha (pt) f (Brazil), betinha f (Portugal)
• Italian: pariolina (pt) f (Italy), vanesia f (Italy)
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See also

• valspeak