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Thanks, that's pretty much how I would express myself in English. In Swedish, the words for "manly" and "womanly" ("manlig"/"kvinnlig") can be used for that ("m

Thanks, that's pretty much how I would express myself in English. In Swedish, the words for "manly" and "womanly" ("manlig"/"kvinnlig") can be used for that ("my manly colleagues" would typically be understood as the men among my colleagues, rather than the most bearded/musky/etc among them). Now let's hear from a US English native!

mtrower 7y ago
U.S. English native. This ("a female") sounds just fine to me. My friends or I might talk this way amongst ourselves(and no, I'm not talking about an all-male, socially mal-adjusted circle of friends). It's not what you'd call 100% standard mainstream English, but it's no so far outside the norm that I'd think twice about it either. While it's probably not how I'd teach a non-native to speak, I definitely wouldn't read anything into its use here, either. Chalk it up to subculture, I suppose, as suggested earlier.