(a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak.
(a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense.
(v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken.
(v. i.) To grow womanish or weak.
Example Sentences:
(1) These bribes and rewards, often feminine or effeminate ornaments, not only beautify the already gorgeous bodies of young men, but also label and augment their value and their power.
(2) Growing up on the Norris Green council estate in Liverpool, Duggan, who is now 41, was bullied at home and at school – "I was probably just a bit too sensitive and effeminate for my own good" – and he found solace in the Smiths, particularly in their first couple of albums, when he was 14 or 15.
(3) Were Brian Blessed to complain angrily and defensively enough that he "didn't come across as effeminate", he would gradually start to seem girly.
(4) One result of the sharp dichotomization of male and female gender roles is the widely held belief that effeminate males generally prefer to play the female role rather than the male.
(5) When the talkies first came in, leading men with effeminate voices lost their careers.
(6) In addition, we have found significantly increased plasma follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and LH levels associated with decreased plasma free testosterone levels in homosexual men, but only in effeminate homosexuals.
(7) The majority mixed with effeminate boys, admired a senior person in school and about a third had a physical relationship with this person.
(8) Effeminacy and homosexuality are also linked by the belief that as a result of this role preference effeminate males are sexually interested only in masculine males with whom they play the passive sex role.
(9) And boys don't want to hang around you coz you're effeminate."
(10) Fellow members of the Lower Third could not help noticing David’s flamboyant, even effeminate performing style.
(11) It must have been the worst fight ever: two effeminate theatrical blobs trying not to get hurt.
(12) Eddy Bellegueule (Louis’s real name, which means “beautiful face” in French) is an effeminate child; as a “faggot”, “queer”, “poof”, as he is regularly reminded, he is even worse than an “Arab”, “Jew” or “black”.
(13) Speaking earlier at the conference, Gambaccini said Moyles "encouraged bullying" and caused "human suffering" after a show in which he changed the lyrics to two Will Young songs and sang them in an effeminate, high-pitched voice.
(14) There were eunuchs (castrated men) and mukhannathun (effeminate men) to whom the rules of gender segregation did not apply: they were allowed access to the women’s quarters, presumably because there was thought to be no likelihood of sexual misbehaviour.
(15) From Kenneth Williams to Tom Allen, there has always been a market for effeminate stylings allied to a waspish, holier-than-thou gentility.
(16) In all fairness, no one can speak of transsexual or transvestite children as has been done in the past, but only of feminine or effeminate boys and tomboy girls.
(17) In the course of a long-term study of 55 boys with early effeminate (cross-gender) behavior an effort was also made to ascertain the presence of sexual deviance in their parents, siblings, uncles, and aunts.
(18) A relatively advanced age and secondary trans-sexualism (transvestites and effeminate homosexuals) are risk factors for poor prognosis in those requesting sex reassignment.
(19) It’s a film which playfully toyed with the perceived homoeroticism of the male-warrior culture: depicting the Spartans as brave, warlike and noble, but the Persians as in thrall to an effeminate and contemptible king: Xerxes.
(20) Hence that word "squeaky", suggestive of the most paltry and effeminate of colonic disorders, a million miles from Sir Alex, with his cast-iron constitution, his five portions of fruit a day, his regular and decisive daily movements.
Ponce
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 9634 patients (21-39 years, with at least 1 normal pregnancy) with no previous experience with oral contraceptives or IUDs, seen at clinics in Rio Piedras, Caguas, and Ponce, Puerto Rico from July 1961 to October 1969 to study their changing patterns in cervical cytology were divided randomly into 2 groups, of which 4846 were given oral contraceptive, Enovid, and 4788 provided with a vaginal contraceptive excluding IUDs, and followed for a period of 6 months-8 years.
(2) So he’s come here and ponced off us hasn’t he, like all the east Europeans are?
(3) Cohen, M. Ponce de Leon, H. Diggelmann, W.C. Lawrence, S.K.
(4) Juan Ponce de León, a volunteer with the campaign, said the machine was part of a wider effort to bring in as many donations as possible this year.
(5) Ponce notes that more and more young people with more than nine years of schooling are migrating to the US, risking their lives as they cross the border illegally.
(6) Ponce de Leon and Mares just exchanged a rather tasty flurry of punches in the second round, with Mares perhaps landing the bigger punches...and he's down at the bell!
(7) Even Marcos's defence minister, Juan Ponce Enrile, brutal jailer of the democracy campaigners, was placated by Aquino, eventually finishing up as a senator.
(8) So, he comes here, ponces off us and then his son’s in our political system.” North East Hampshire is a safe Tory seat.
(9) Other ads focused on the economic consequences: Fernando Ponce, then head of Anprac, the beverage industry association, warned that 10,000 jobs would be lost in the short term, and 20,000 in the medium term.
(10) A great big sweaty bespectacled bear of a man, Raymond the Roller would run the heavy roller from one end of the pitch to the other at a fair old lick scattering any subs poncing about and traumatising the kids taking part in the penalty shoot-out.
(11) Ponce notes that things will only get worse as a result of the economic recession in the US and Europe, which is compounded by Mexico's low rate of job creation.
(12) Carmen Ponce, an economist specialising in gender issues, says 2012 will be a "very challenging" year for Mexico in terms of job creation, as Chinese goods begin flooding the country as a result of the implementation of a trade agreement that opens the door to imports from China.
(13) Of 602 specimens obtained from blood donors in Ponce in 1987, 1 (0.2%) was positive; an additional specimen was indeterminate.
(14) According to Marvin Ponce, vice-president of the Honduran congress, up to 40% of police have ties to organised crime.
(15) Ponce de León said he hoped the machine would generate enough interest to help families at least get through the holiday season.
(16) Instead we have the spiky analysis of Paulie Malignaggi ringside, and most pertinently of all (and what you’re all dying to know) the fight will be prefaced by Jimmy Lennon Jr’s rallying cry of “It’s Showtime!” Ponce de Leon inching back into the fight a little in the 4th, but Mares still demonstrably faster.
(17) Ponce forecasts that around 100,000 jobs will be lost this year.
(18) 4.34am BST Post-fight Ponce de Leon might feel aggrieved, as the incumbent champion, at the speed with which the fight was stopped.
(19) For Ponce, these figures reflect "the feminisation of unemployment".
(20) 4.28am BST Undercard still going... Ponce de Leon quite happy to let this become as scrappy as it's become in these middle rounds.