valley girl
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- noun
- /ˈvæli ɡɜrl/
- Offensive
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[término ofensivo para una mujer superficial y materialista (EE. UU.)]
- My friend is such a valley girl; she loves fashion and shopping at the hottest stores.
And I immediately wrote down all of those things that they said and was trying so hard to be a Valley girl.
- And I immediately wrote down all of those things that they said and was trying so hard to be a Valley girl.
- So novel about the valley girl would have to would like, you know, the would like would be repeated constantly.
Examples
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I sound like a Valley girl.
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And I was doing a little bit of a Valley Girl thing because Frank Zappa and Moon had just put out the song Valley Girl.
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Even just her pronunciations of words were so funny, her weird take on a Valley girl.
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Uh, j... just in case you're... you're interested, "I do this Valley Girl voice."
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She said, high and emphatic like a valley girl, "Good!"
Fiction book (2001) -
I am a valley girl at heart, and I fully embrace the words totally, awesome, and I have been trying to single-handedly make bitchin' relevant again, to varying degrees of success.
Blog text (26) -
She always talks like a valley girl, using phrases like 'totally' and 'like'.
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In the movie, the main character is a valley girl known for her distinctive way of speaking and trendy style.
Synonyms
A young woman seen as shallow and focused on fashion
Surface Forms
Morphology
valley + girl
The compound is partly compositional: a learner who knows 'valley' and 'girl' can infer a female associated with a valley (geographic origin), so some basic meaning is transparent. However, the phrase carries a culturally specific stereotype (California speech, materialism, fashionability) that cannot be deduced from the words alone and requires extra sociocultural knowledge, making it only partially predictable.
Etymology
The term valley girl comes from the San Fernando valley, an area near Los Angeles where, in the 1980s, teenage girls often hung out in shopping malls and spoke in a high, sing-song way, using the word 'like' a lot. So, valley girl came to mean a young woman seen as 'fashionable', 'materialistic', and speaking in a particular way.