girlishly

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English girlish Middle English -ly English -ly English girlishly From girlish + -ly.

1. In a girlish manner.

   “Ganymede was once a girlishly handsome precocious youth. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal."”

   “"What's worse, I suppose I girlishly trilled all this to him, and too often. […]"”