girllike

It’s closer to a mental state: a question of how girllike or boylike you feel.

So how girllike does any girl feel?

Perhaps if the girls had explained why they wanted the things, their relatives would have been more generous; but girllike, the four poverty-stricken young housekeepers made a deep mystery of their dinner plan.

When Abby is forced to hunt for herself, rather than drink from the gallon jugs of blood Father helpfully procures, she morphs into a CGI creature that looks more buglike than girllike.