ASL University ► American Sign Language: "girl" Place the tip of your thumb on your cheek.

She and six other deaf children were the first students to attend the American School for the Deaf in 1817. The sign is like running your thumb along the ribbon on a baby’s bonnet. As a young girl, Alice Cogswell, inspired her neighbor, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, to devote his life to educating the deaf and to create the American School for the Deaf. Figure: Girl in Baby Sign Language.

Opposite: BOY . Learner tip: not confuse GIRL with AUNT (a slightly different orientation). Antonym: BOYFRIEND. Signing: To sign girl, start by making a fist with your thumb sticking out. Take your thumb and starting at the back of your jaw run the thumb along your jaw ending at your chin. Compound sign: "GIRL+FRIEND". Most used ASL vocabulary for signed word: girl in American Sign Language video dictionary signed by a kid.

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Video: Girl in Sign Language. Interesting tidbit: the sign came from "bonnet" in the old days. ... Sign language on this site is the authenticity of culturally Deaf people and codas who speak ASL and other signed languages as their first language. ASL Play, Deaf Culture, more. Related signs: WOMAN, CHILD, KID.

the thumb forward and down along the cheek. As for the definition, "a woman's female friend", I would sign "FEMALE/WOMAN+FRIEND". Definition: A female child; a young or relatively young woman.