earthgirl n.
a girl or woman from Earth
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[1858 Herald of Light June 57
The Heaven-girls are fond and true; the earth-girls are too often inconstant and cold at heart.]
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[1903 Reader Mar. 468/2
The next [tale relates] how a small sea-maiden and a little earth-girl changed places.]
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1911
The fancy took me to suspend intuition just to see how Earth girls feel.
Girl from Mercury in Wit & Humor of America IV. 793 -
1924
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Carroll F. Michener
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Hattie La Salle…was often heard to declaim a strange, somewhat psychic story, and to end it, melodramatically, in these sententious words: ‘I, a woman of the Earth, have destroyed a religion, and a city—who knows if I have not destroyed a whole people: the inhabitants of a globe?’…. Maderna, the Earth Girl, she who had been known in Chicago as Hattie La Salle, arose from the couch on which she awoke.
The Earth Girl in Weird Tales Dec. 18/1 -
1930
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Ray Cummings
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The girls of all the Universe have no charm for me. There is only one, for me—an Earth[-]girl.
Brigands of the Moon in Astounding Stories of Super-Science June 367/2 -
1936
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A. Macfadyen, Jr.
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He held out to the startled gaze of Kirschner, an object which he had brought from the seat of the machine—a cloak cut strangely from a cloth of peculiar texture and shade of color, such a thing as no earth girl wore, in 1937 A.D.
Time Decelerator in Astounding Stories July 39/2
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1939
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Hal K. Wells
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You have given me an idea, Earthgirl, and it is one that I am afraid you will live to regret.
Moon of Mad Atavism in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 35/1
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1945
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Jack Vance
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Where is the Earth-girl?
World-Thinker in Thrilling Wonder Stories Summer 40/2
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1947
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Frederik Pohl
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‘Earthgirl?’ the guard repeated. ‘She didn’t look like an Earthie.’
Donovan Had a Dream in Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct. 27/1
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1947
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Henry Hasse
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Kraaz picked up the gun then bulked in the center of the room, ignoring the Earth girl in the guise of a Ganymedian.
Trail of Astrogar in Amazing Stories Oct. 57/1
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1951
The cosmetic business was one of the few that had not profited from the tourist trade, except insofar as lady tourists bought costly perfumes, and Earthgirls strove to mimic the natural—or unnatural—coloring of the fair visitors.
Pilot and Bushman in Galaxy Science Fiction Aug. 93/1
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1955
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Jack Vance
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But how in the world could I compare some cute little Earth girl with a Sadal Suud Isobrod? Or one of those Pleiades dragon-women?
Meet Miss Universe in Fantastic Universe Mar. 6/2
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1956
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Milton Lesser
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Jack the Ripper (said the Earth videocaster) has slashed his way into the public eye today by apparently rigging the Beauty Contest in favor of the Earth girl, Dawne Flaim of Richmond, Virginia, then declaring Earth-like Eros out of bounds for the contest, putting Miss Flaim at a terrible disadvantage in competing with the artifically evolved denizens of the outworlds.
Meet Miss Solar System in Fantastic Universe Apr. 58/1
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1988 (title of film)
Earth Girls Are Easy.
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2008
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John Varley
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She’s not an imposing figure, certainly not on Mars. Maybe a little bit less than average height for an Earth girl.
Rolling Thunder iv. 29
Research requirements
antedating 1911
Earliest cite
H. K. Vielé
Research History
Fred Galvin submitted a 1942 cite from Ray Cummings's "Gods of Space".Fred Galvin submitted a 1950 cite from John D. MacDonald's "Shadow on the Sand".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1955 cite from Jack Vance's "Meet Miss Universe".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1982 reprint of Jack Vance's 1945 "The World-Thinker"; Mike Christie verified it in the original magazine appearance.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from "James MacCreigh's" "Donovan Had a Dream".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1947 cite from Henry Hasse's "Trail of the Astrogar".
Fred Galvin submitted a cite for "earth girl" from a 1975 reprint of A. Macfadyen, Jr.'s 1936 "The Time Decelerator"; Mike Christie verified the first magazine appearance in the July 1936 Astounding Stories.
Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1959 reprint of Robert Silverberg's "The Planet Killers" (originally published in 1957 as "This World Must Die!".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1946 cite from John Douglas' "Futura".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1949 cite from Thornecliffe Herrick's "The Lost World".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1956 cite from Milton Lesser's "Meet Miss Solar System".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1951 cite from Sylvia Jacobs's "The Pilot and the Bushman".
Fred Galvin submitted a 1939 cite from Hal K. Wells's "Moon of Mad Atavism": currently this is the earliest cite for "earthgirl" as a single word.
Ben Ostrowsky submitted a 2008 cite from John Varley.
Fred Galvin submitted a 1930 cite from Ray Cummings' "Brigands of the Moon".
Fred Galvin located a reference to the story "The Earth Girl" by Carroll K. Michener (Weird Tales, 12/1924); Jesse Sheidlower verified it in the original appearance.
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