The word "girly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe something that is typically associated with girls or young women (e.g. pink, glitter, makeup, etc). For example: She has a very girly bedroom decorated with lots of pink and sparkly accessories.
It's still as girly as all get-out, but isn't that the whole point?
It is the sad but lovely woman, trapped in an unhappy, arranged marriage, unable to fulfill her dreams, or even express herself, but just wants to talk in confidence about these problems, and finish with a general chitchat about girly things.
Perhaps they're just afraid of what my ability to blithely wear them says about what's supposedly too "girly" for men to do.
In no particular order we've had Tilda Swinton wearing androgynous suits, Bobby Gillespie wearing chiffon and a girly hair parting, Annie Hall and, of course, the maestro himself, David Bowie.
Earlier in the day, the teenager's mother, Kelly, and stepfather, Danny, appeared at a press conference where they described Amber as a "girly girl" who loved nothing better than reading.
The other lot will only faff about with girly sticking plaster".
She's very girly, into dresses and makeup, high heels, that kind of thing.
We hear from girls who aren't allowed to join in football games and boys who are bullied for wanting to take "girly" subjects such as art or drama.
One day, on a girly whim, she wrote that she wanted to buy a banjo but that her husband, ever the "tyrant", wouldn't let her.
New research by the University of Suffolk finds that anorexics go online to meet like-minded teens and to engage in "girly chit-chat about boyfriends and books", says the study's author, Emma Bond.
Even at the age of 66 she is still known in Hong Kong as "Little Sweetie" because of her diminutive stature and fondness for wearing girly pigtails, bobby socks and micro-miniskirts.
