What's the difference between girl and girly?

Girl


Definition:

  • (n.) A young person of either sex; a child.
  • (n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
  • (n.) A female servant; a maidservant.
  • (n.) A roebuck two years old.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (4) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
  • (5) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (6) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (7) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
  • (8) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
  • (9) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
  • (10) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
  • (11) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
  • (12) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (13) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (14) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
  • (15) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (16) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
  • (17) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
  • (18) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (19) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
  • (20) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.

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.