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A young female human, and a word that's gotten smaller over 800 years.
means A female child or young woman, though usage stretches from infants to grown adults.
from From Middle English gurle, which oddly meant a young person of ANY sex before narrowing to female around the 1500s.
Once neutralOriginally meant any child, boy or girl.
Murky rootsEtymologists still argue where gurle came from.
Age creepApplied to women far past childhood, controversially.