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truepennyI apologize in advance.
So I'm cruising the OED Online, trying to find out when girlfriend in the sense of "romantic involvement" came into use (long story short: page proofs), and they offer this example of the use of girl-friend from the report of a wedding in 1896:
Now I have been to some appalling weddings in my time, but never anything to match that.
The mind positively boggles.
Also, the "sweet girl-graduates" crack that annoys Harriet in Gaudy Night is a quote from Tennyson: "Sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair." Which figures.
And, hey,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala, you'll like this one. Examples for the compound girl-boy include this quote from Drayton's Heroical Epistles (1598):
There's an example of girle-boyes from 1589, too.
So I'm cruising the OED Online, trying to find out when girlfriend in the sense of "romantic involvement" came into use (long story short: page proofs), and they offer this example of the use of girl-friend from the report of a wedding in 1896:
The "Wedding March" was whistled by twelve girl-friends of the bride.
Now I have been to some appalling weddings in my time, but never anything to match that.
The mind positively boggles.
Also, the "sweet girl-graduates" crack that annoys Harriet in Gaudy Night is a quote from Tennyson: "Sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair." Which figures.
And, hey,
matociquala, you'll like this one. Examples for the compound girl-boy include this quote from Drayton's Heroical Epistles (1598): And in my place vpon this regal throne,
To set that girle-boy wanton Gaueston
There's an example of girle-boyes from 1589, too.
