schoolgirl

school +‎ girl

schoolgirl (plural schoolgirls)

1. A girl attending school.
   • 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.

• pupil, student (especially US)

• schoolgirlish
• schoolgirlism
• schoolgirl pin
• schoolgirly

• schoolboy
• schoolchild

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.