schoolgirl

CEFRA1

/ˈskuːlɡɜː(ɹ)l/

noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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

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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.
1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street, page 33
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.
2006, Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream
“Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.
2007 April 15, Sophie Harrison, “Memoirs of a Geisha’s Sister”, in The New York Times
Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.
2004, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 57
She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.
2017, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001, page 121

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Compound of school + girl.