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girlie men

girlie men

Date: Jul 28 2004

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“They cannot have the guts to come out there in front of you and say, ‘I don’t want to represent you. I want to represent those special interests: the unions, the trial lawyers. I call them girlie men. They should get back to the table, and they should finish the budget”.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California on good and bad politicians.

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

The term girlie men was first used in the eighties by Arnold Schwarzenegger, when he was an actor. He wasn’t a politician yet. It was used to identify weak men, men who act like little girls.

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Arnold calls anyone he thinks is weak is a girlie man.

After we first saw this term, it was used regularly in a comedy series called Saturday Night Live. On the show, there are two characters, Hans and Franz. They are physical trainers who were going to “pump up” the girlie men watching the program. It is amusing to see this term used in a political speech, especially by Arnold who was a famous actor before becoming a politician.

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“My dad got really upset when he was at work and his boss referred to him and his co-workers as girlie men.”

“After the basketball coach told his team that they were a bunch of girlie men, the team tried much harder. They actually made it to the finals!”

“Compared to the guys who compete in the Olympics, the majority of guys are really just girlie men.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

i guess it describes people who are shy,coward to express their opinions. kinda like chicken^^
by Nicole (shanghai, shanghai)
Girlie men” just means men that are weak and sissy-like, similar to a girl.
by Emily (Qinhuangdao, China)
girlie men seems to mean: not straight people, “behaving like a girls” in the case of men. This is discriminatory and offensive for women.
by Alejandro (México City, México)
i think it may mean;being not exactly a ‘man’..here ‘man’ means honest,the exact type you really must be..you aren’t the one you should have been when you are a girlie man..
by ogün (samsun, Türkiye!...)
Girlie Man means someone who has no courage.
by André (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
girlie man : Man who is a little coward or like a housewife .
by linda (xiamen, china)
Girlie Man means a person who acts like a girl, like speak things behind one’s back or don’t have a gut to say things straight in front of people.
by Kaewta (Bangkok, Thailand)
think it means timid people who only take care of the minority and make the small dicision.
by ivy (penang, malaysia)
Girlie men are guys who are cowards. They are afraid of showing personal opinions against the others’. They are sort of like
girls without strong courages and guts.
by gang (Wuhan, China)
bad, and false men
by Michael (hangzhou, China)
girlie men are men who have not adequate strong.
by xianchao (Pingdingshan, China)
it means coward
by charmingbear (wuhan, china)
no one lisen him
by bahadir (w.sussex, england)
lying politician
by huirong (wuxi, china)
wuusy
by gustavo (xalapa, mexico)
A milky man
by Daniel (ShenYang, China)
girlie men” Dillydallying on something.
What Arnold Schwarzenegger called the lawmakers “girlie men” due to who were dillydallying on the budged.
by Mehmet Ali (KARS-BTC.Co, TURKEY)
people who are timid; people who lack the courage to speak up, to fight for the right things
by Elaine (Taipei, Taiwan)
I suppose it means those who are coward, not daring to do what is right.
by Harriet (Tainan, Taiwan)
a coward
by yu (hk, china)
Coward.
by cynthia (toronto, ca)
the woman who is very strongly in her business. right? i’m not sure.
by cynthia (beijing, china)
It refers to the kind of man who’d like talk rubbish rather than do substantial things which belong to their responsibility.
by fei (beijing , China)
girlie men,in my opinion ,it`s mean those men whose work generally done by women.
by jing (guangzhou, China)
that means the men who act like girls.
by Lani (Beijing, China)
Maybe “girlie men” are those who are afraid face someone to tell him or her the truth.
by Jaya (Manila, Philippines)
A girlie man is someone who is afraid of telling his opinion to other people’s faces, maybe someone who tries to hide himself from the others.
by Joana (Schluechtern, Germany)

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batyok

batyok

Turkmenistan

coward, hyppocrat (possible some situations) and very mild like girls.

06:32 AM Jul 11 2009 |

dreamcheap

Taiwan

I swim every morning, so I think I am not a girlie man^^

01:22 AM Jul 08 2009 |

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