Home › Words › G › girlfriendhoodgirlfriendhoodgirlfriendhood means the state of being a girlfriend.EtymologyFrom girlfriend + -hood.nounThe state of being a girlfriend.e.g.“But by the season’s end a Machiavellian figure named Spencer had decided to indenture Heidi to girlfriendhood.” — 2007 August 13, Virginia Heffernan, “It’s Lauren vs. Heidi in Battle of the Ex-BFFs”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).