valley girl
See also: Valley Girl and Valley girl
English
Alternative forms
- Valley girl
- Valley Girl
- valley-girl
Noun
valley girl (plural valley girls)
- (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.
- 2010, John C. Wells, accents map
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 erroneously referred to as a valley girl, almost always pejoratively.
Coordinate terms
Translations
superficial woman
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