What's the difference between girly and mannish?

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.

Mannish


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
  • (a.) Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine.
  • (a.) Fond of men; -- said of a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although she has a strong, almost mannish, presence, and an attentive vitality, she is in fact quite frail; she needs help to dress and a lift to get her between the two floors of her large house in Suffolk.
  • (2) Of course, no one wishes girls to become mannish or to lose their feminine qualities in any degree, and this is usually the point of attack for the general condemnation of all strenuous games.
  • (3) ), miniskirts, lollipops, a beguiling sheen of sweat (nothing terrifying or mannish ) and so on.
  • (4) But after tapping mannishly at the fixtures, the husband detects a problem.
  • (5) Women sometimes sport furs, sometimes mannish suits and painted moustaches.
  • (6) She was described as "mannish", "vulgar", "coarse" and "too American"(!).
  • (7) Other highlights included new takes on biker jackets, mannish tailoring including a Prince of Wales blazer, and silk velvet boiler suits designed for evening.

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