schoolgirlism
English
Etymology
schoolgirl + -ism
Noun
schoolgirlism (uncountable)
- schoolgirlish attitudes or behaviour
- 1858, A. von Beresford, Millicent Or Our English Homes of the Present Day
- […] out came the candle from its deal receptacle, and the Amelias, Janes and Carolines, betook themselves to cakes and novels, devouring both with an ardour that only schoolgirlism can produce.
- 1860, Dublin University Magazine (page 548)
- These things should have something of the positive underneath, or they degenerate into conventionality and schoolgirlism.
- 1858, A. von Beresford, Millicent Or Our English Homes of the Present Day
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