Campfire Girl
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈkæmˌfaɪər ɡɜrl/
- US
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Campfire Girl
Examples
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We're both working and then we're both not going to Campfire Girls.
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I'm not in Campfire Girls.
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A campfire girl? - [April]
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You missed Campfire Girls.
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I wanted to be a Brownie or a Campfire Girl, and wear a beret and learn to sew.
Academic text (2004) -
She was proud to be a Campfire Girl and enjoyed all the activities with her friends.
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As a Campfire Girl, she learned valuable skills like first aid and outdoor cooking.
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At the annual meeting, all the Campfire Girls proudly displayed the badges they had earned.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Campfire + girl
A B1 learner who knows 'camp'/'campfire' and 'girl' could infer a literal meaning like a girl at a campfire or a girl associated with camping, so there is some obvious compositional cue. However, the specific sense 'a member of the Camp Fire Girls organization' is a proper‑name/cultural reference that is not fully predictable from the constituents without prior exposure, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Campfire Girl comes from an American youth club that met outdoors around a campfire, where girls sang, told stories and learned outdoor skills. That's why Campfire Girl means 'a girl who is a member of that club' today.