Expression only male/female use

[Rei]

In English, is there any expression only male/female use?
If so, could you give me some examples?

Thanks in advance!

[Esl_Expert]

Hello Rei,

It is probably pretty safe to say that "I'm a man" is a male thing to say, and "I'm a woman" is a female thing to say. :wink:

There are male/female tendencies in language, but these are by no means absolute. You can find more information about male/female language tendencies if you google the terms "language gender", for example:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=language+gender

[Jamie (K)]

I think that there are very few expressions that are for male or female use only, unless they have to do with biology.

However, there are some things that tend to sound effeminate. For example, in the UK, it's common for men to say that they "fancy" something or that something is "lovely". In the US those expressions sound very effeminate when used by a man, and we men normally wouldn't use them. We might say that a woman is "lovely", but we wouldn't go around saying that almost everything is lovely, the way British men do.

Also, some French expressions that are common in English sound effeminate sometimes just because they are French. Men may use them, however, and if the man is really manly, they won't sound effeminate coming from him.

Some unusual words for specific colors are used more by women than by men.