拿來叫人的稱呼
這一支最接近核心畫面，因為它就是直接把那個小尾巴用在一個人身上。誰說、對誰說，決定了它是暖的還是傷人的。
noun · C1
A young girl, spoken about in a warm, affectionate way. It is an older, friendly use, heard most often in the plural about small children.
小女孩
核心畫面
You can think of girlie as girl with a small, fond ending stuck on it — the same -ie that turns dog into doggie and aunt into auntie. That ending makes the word smaller and closer. Two very different things can come out of that. Aimed at a child, small and close feels like love. Aimed at a grown woman, or at a thing, small and close turns into shrinking her down: less serious, less grown, less to be listened to. The whole word lives on that one switch.
「girlie」可以想成 girl 後面黏了一個小小的、親暱的尾巴 -ie，就像 dog 變 doggie、aunt…更多收起
「girlie」可以想成 girl 後面黏了一個小小的、親暱的尾巴 -ie，就像 dog 變 doggie、aunt 變 auntie。這個尾巴做的事只有一件：把東西講小、講近。但同樣一個動作，會長出兩種完全相反的感覺。用在小孩身上，講小講近就是疼愛。用在一個成年女性、或一件東西上，講小就變成把她縮起來：不夠成熟、不夠正經、不必認真聽。這個字的每一種用法，都可以回到這個開關上。From the word’s history
The packet's source entry gives the word as girl + -ie, with girl traced back through Middle English girle. So the fond, shrinking ending is not a later add-on; it is what the word is made of, and it explains why the same form can sound warm in one mouth and insulting in another.
來源資料把這個字拆成 girl 加上 -ie，girl 則可以往回追到中古英語的 girle。所以那個「講小、講親」的尾巴不是後來才加上去的，而是這個字的組成本身。這也說明了為什麼同一個形，從不同人口中說出來，可以是疼愛，也可以是冒犯——差別不在字，在對象和關係。
Wiktionary etymology supplied in this packet: “From girl + -ie.” (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1281771838:11575)
Three branches
刻板印象裡的女孩味
這一支不再叫人，而是把那個「小女孩」的印象拿去貼在東西或行為上，於是變成一張分類標籤。
adjective · C1
Used about a colour, an object, or an activity to say that it belongs to girls and not to boys or men. It is a spoken word, and it usually carries the idea that the thing is soft, pretty, or not to be taken seriously.
女生氣的、娘的
當成觀賞對象的女體
把「講小、講隨便」推到最遠的一支：照片裡的人不只被縮小，而是直接被當成看的東西。這個意思不能拆開，只活在 magazine、calendar、show 這幾個名詞前面。
adjective · C1
Used in front of words like magazine, calendar, show, or picture to say that the thing contains pictures of women with no clothes on, made to be looked at by men.
裸女照片的（雜誌、月曆等）
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
girlienoun
- 1
slangA magazine targeting an adult male audience and containing nude or seminude photographs of women.
- When Grandma came to visit, the boy hid the girlies in his dresser so she wouldn't see them.
- 2
A young girl.
- Near-synonyms: baby girl; see also Thesaurus:girl
- And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […]
- 3
A woman or person with feminine traits.
- Near-synonyms: girlie girl, girly girl
- K-pop girlie
girlieadj
- 1
slangOf entertainment, involving attractive women or images thereof, usually nude or wearing skimpy clothing.
- The [women's] community in Japan is very tiny and very lonely. And the way that the word "lesbian" translates into Japanese, it means "women who perform sexual acts together in girlie shows." So when we defined ourselves as lesbians, there was snickering among the women.
- 2
slangCharacteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, sweet; unmasculine.
- He said he wasn't paying good money for girlie hair — that's what he called it anytime we wanted to go into town to have a real haircut.
- The debut novelist M. A. Larson hails from the world of “My Little Pony,” where he is a writer on the TV show and a frequent presence at events for "Bronies” — boys, teenagers and grown-ups who are into “My Little Pony.” In the way that Bronies co-opted a formerly girlie form and made it unisex, Larson plays here with princesses as rescuers, not rescuees.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。