Modifies a noun

• hug: Peter Mack bounds down the aisle of the Arts Center and envelopes Tony Howard in a manly hug.

• smell: Posted by: the manly smell | January 1, 2004 02:40 PM Happy New Year!

• virtue: Looking myself impartially over, I believe that is my only manly virtue.

• pursuit: Impress him by Asking him questions about manly pursuits, something like 'how do car radiators work?

• beauty: Then, when I was thus put in possession of the facts, she asked my judgment on that type of manly beauty.

• fellow: He was a fine manly fellow, and highly respected in the neighborhood.

Modifying Another Word

• very: It didn't seem a very manly thing to do: he couldn't say why.

• really: You see to some a man must look like a Rugby Player or WWE Wrestler with huge muscles to be really manly.

• too: I tried to talk Brian into it but he was far too manly for such silly theatricals.

• not: Lets face it; it is just not manly for a man to wear jewelry.

• rather: Similarly, Lister's history includes a rather manly grandmother and a father who owned a dog named Hannah.

• appropriately: Again, put down the book and consider something appropriately manly, such as shooting wild boar in a thicket.