What's the difference between butch and girly?

Butch


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (2) Mickelson's coach, Butch Harmon, was reduced to tears.
  • (3) Station commander Butch Wilmore used a robot arm to grab the capsule and its 5,000 pounds (2,300kg) of precious cargo, as the craft soared more than 260 miles (420km) above the Mediterranean.
  • (4) Recent research suggests that butch-femme role playing in lesbian couples has diminished and been replaced with androgynous attitudes and behaviors.
  • (5) She always had a butch identity, but couldn't express it as a girl in the 1980s.
  • (6) And I distinctly remember seeing Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned me on to Robert Redford and probably led to me the 70s version of Gatsby .
  • (7) Copyright: AK Summers The idea for Pregnant Butch came when she was first thinking about having a baby – her son, Franklin, is now 10.
  • (8) "When you're a butch, you want the way you look to be recognised as intentional," she says.
  • (9) The Johnny Depp western The Lone Ranger has attracted ire from campaigners over its addition of a prosthetic cleft lip to actor William Fichtner's face, to enhance the "evil" qualities of his outlaw killer character Butch Cavendish.
  • (10) The Stonewall uprising was led by drag queens but the first punch was thrown by a butch lesbian.
  • (11) "Plus it had those elements of fantasy - I was brought up on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Jesse James.
  • (12) Because only the inactive monomeric form of ButChE contains free sulfhydryl groups, it is postulated that MMH combines covalently with the sulfur, preventing formation of active enzyme.
  • (13) The memory of this woman's distended belly resurfaced when Summers was contemplating pregnancy, reviving adolescent fears that butchness was synonymous with ugliness.
  • (14) Take The L Word : the drama about lesbians ran for six seasons, but faced criticisms over not including enough butch characters, for example.
  • (15) But the flipside was that I often felt I had lost my butchness.
  • (16) Pregnant Butch is her first full-length graphic book.
  • (17) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
  • (18) A ll my preconceptions about Mexican food were blown out of the water on my first trip to the country, when I discovered a cuisine that offers everything from butch street food to incredibly refined dishes, from hearty food like grandmother’s mole to delicate crab soups.
  • (19) Stone Butch Blues, her influential first novel , considers the difficulties of lesbian and transgender life in the second half of the 20th century.
  • (20) Finally, like Paul Newman and Robert Redford at the end of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , they broke cover, and dashed to their equipment, all guns blazing.

Girly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Avid, Boticca.com is a fashion website, which is about as girly as it gets, but you've come at it from a hard engineering background, haven't you?
  • (2) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
  • (3) When I was little, I was a really girly girl who didn't like to wear trousers.
  • (4) The glucose infusion rate (GIR, mg.kg-1.min-1) as an index of insulin sensitivity was assessed by the euglycemic insulin clamp technique 1 (1h-post-Ex group), 3 (3h-post-Ex), 6 (6h-post-Ex) and 24 hours after exercise (24h-post-Ex), n = 8 in each group.
  • (5) Two of these (GIR-208 and GIR-301) abrogated all binding of radioligand to either intact placental membranes or soluble, purified IFN-gamma R. Three others (GIR-72, 76 and 94) showed moderate blocking activity (65, 59, and 49%, respectively) whereas the remaining five (GIR-57, 67, 83, 109, and 153) blocked binding to a low but significant extent (20 to 40%).
  • (6) The role of alpha-adrenoceptors in the regulation of glucose-induced insulin release (GIR) was investigated in islets of normal and neonatally streptozotocin-injected non-insulin-dependent diabetic rats (STZ).
  • (7) Patient response was assessed by global improvement rating (GIR) based on changes in seizure frequency, EEG findings, and nonparoxysmal clinical manifestations.
  • (8) Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly.
  • (9) We conclude that intrapancreatic GIR nerves also occur in the mouse and the rat.
  • (10) But they said, 'Vic, filming the top of the head of a young person who just wants to get on with her work and stop for occasional girly chats with her friends just isn't interesting.'"
  • (11) The glucose infusion rate (GIR) in the hyperglycemic clamp technique was higher (P less than .05).
  • (12) I went from being a girly swot to having the time of my life."
  • (13) "In fact, Greg will be away overnight so Gaia and I will be able to have a girly evening together.
  • (14) Blood glucose levels and glucose infusion rates (GIR) were continuously monitored, and glucose turnover was estimated using a [3H]glucose infusion.
  • (15) We report here the sequence of one of these cDNA clones (clone 4.2), renamed here as glucocorticoid-induced receptor (GIR), which encodes a potential new member of the family of receptors that couple to G-proteins.
  • (16) Glucose infusion rates (GIR) increased during insulin infusion but were not different between groups at any insulin infusion rate.
  • (17) Net increase in AIR, glucose disappearance rate after glucose pulse, and GIR were significantly and positively correlated to the net increase in erythrocyte magnesium content calculated after chronic magnesium supplementation to diet.
  • (18) GIR of DWA2114R by the serial administration was higher than that of CBDCA at the doses to induce the same toxicity which was estimated by body weight loss.
  • (19) In his video “Experimenting ” he splits his face in two with eyeliner, using “pretty pink Barbie blush” on the right – a “girly-girl look”, and gothic black lips and purple eyes on the left, to talk about the assumptions people will make based on your appearance.
  • (20) Any colour is better than pink, but these robust choices hardly strike one as girly.