# pick-me girl

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A woman who asserts that she is unlike (and sometimes better than) most other women, in order to gain attention, approval, or validation from men.

## Etymology
From the phrase pick me + girl, the implication being that such women, like someone pleading "pick me!", are desperate to be chosen over their putative competition.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pick-me-girl