Deeper Dive: girl
girl girl [OE. girle, gerle, gurle, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG. gör child.]
1. A young person of either sex; a child. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
3. A female servant; a maidservant. [U. S.]
4. (Zoöl.) A roebuck two years old. [Prov. Eng.]
-- Webster's unabridged 1913
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