girl–child
noun
variants: or
girl child
Definition of girl–child
girl–children
orgirl children
: a young female child On the summer evening – Tom Hard took the girl child to the house of a relative where she had been invited to spend the night. — Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919 But then I … look at the sleeping girl-child in my arms, her small hand curled around one of my fingers … — W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe, 1982
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Circa 1755
First Known Use of girl–child
circa 1755
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