Valley Girl

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of valley girl.
   alt-of
2. Valspeak; the dialect of English stereotypically spoken by valley girls.
3. A girl or young woman from the San Fernando Valley, especially when stereotyped as superficial and material.
   US, slang
4. Any girl perceived to act or speak like a stereotypical valley girl.
   broadly, derogatory, often

Equivalents

Examples

“As entertainment continues to influence⟳ the development of language, maybe one day “Shatner commas” and their odd, purposeless positions will become⟳ mainstream and the fear of overusing commas will be “refudiated," just “like⟳, like⟳ Valley Girls.””

“She's a valley girl / In a clothing store / Okay, fine / Fer sure”

“They were referring, of course, to that vast expanse of tract homes and backyard barbecues that is the San Fernando Valley. The valley, with its valley girls and mini-malls, never shared Los Angeles's cultural cachet.”

“2010, John C. Wells, accents map Note⟳ the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like⟳.”

“Like⟳ the area in California that Miss⟳ Zappa has immortalized, it is a well-to-do, upper-middle-class community with enough boutiques, clothing shops, shoe shops, fur shops, jewelry shops and chocolatiers to fill⟳ several hours a week in the life of those most conspicuous of consumers, the Valley Girls of Long Island, who are sometimes referred to simply as Island Vals.”

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