Abstract: Resting on the framework of variationist sociolinguistics, the present study attempts to explore gender related tendencies of variation in collocations “intensifier+adjective”, based on data from the Ottawa English Corpus and the London English corpus. The findings indicate that the frequency, selection, and patterning of intensifiers have exhibited, to some extent, significant differences between men and women. The results also manifest significant interactions between gender and other social variables and emotional adjectives. And comparatively speaking, the gender specific variation of intensifers is mirrored in their frequency and categories in Canadian English, as opposed to the striking gender identity of specific intensifiers in British English.