(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.
Sissy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That has raised the possibility that their removal was sanctioned by the new heads of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi and Mohamed El-Assar, in order to avert a greater challenge to their authority in later months.
(2) A decade later the story of his abduction at the hands of General Pinochet's troops was told in 1982 by film-maker Costa-Gavras in Missing , an Oscar-winner starring Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon.
(3) Tantawi's replacement, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi, was formerly the head of military intelligence.
(4) The composer Charles Ives, for instance, spent his whole career in a sort of cringe, fearfully anticipating the accusation that to make music was a “sissy” activity.
(5) Now led by Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds), the self-styled King-Beyond-the Wall, the Free People look poised to descend on the sissy south in season three, in a campaign perhaps modelled on Bonnie Prince Charlie's raids into the heartland of the effete sassenachs of yore, or the Vikings marching on Stamford Bridge.
(6) The society I come from is still very patriachal and men are expected to be above women, and anyone who comes in with new ideas about equality is seen as a “sissy”.
(7) "O ld age," as Bette Davis said , "is not for sissies."
(8) Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said on Tuesday his country deeply regretted Regeni’s death and intended to “transparently” continue its “full cooperation” with Italy to resolve the case and bring the culprits to justice.
(9) Then you had somebody like Sissy (Papiss Cissé) he was the next goal scorer with something like eight.
(10) The new Morsi-appointed defence minister is Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
(11) Morsi replaced Tantawi with the head of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi.
(12) Sissy Spacek in the movie version of Carrie, Kathy Bates in Misery, Tim Curry in It and Danny Lloyd in The Shining.
(13) Sissy Vovou Before they will release €7.2bn in aid that Greece needs to pay public-sector salaries and pensions and repay €1.6bn in IMF loans, those lenders want further reforms to the pensions system, including penalties to put people off taking early retirement and more cuts to even the lowest pensions.
(14) The magazine polled readers for their choice, and the winner was Egyptian general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who didn't make the top 10 of Time's final list.
(15) The particular corner is not just any corner in the city – as Carlos Monsiváis describes it in La Mano Temblorosa de una Hechicera: “San Juan de Letrán was, back then, not a mere street, it was the center of life in the capital, of the life that was worth living (…) there began and ended the world of the prohibited, of that which only had a place in the sobremesa of solitary men (…) In that street walked drivers and politicians, hookers and women of high society, machos and sissies … I think it was in San Juan de Letrán where gays started coming out of their holes to start moving about, unhindered, and go after whomever allowed it.” As a young man Novo, later considered one of the major poets of the Contemporáneos generation (the Mexican modernist poets), lived a double, liminal existence between his family’s regime of typical gente decente and the forbidden underworlds of homosexual men in the still highly reactionary 1920s.
(16) Recently, trailblazers like Sissy Nobby and Big Dipper took the risks that made it easier for others to follow.
(17) The most important aspects of the questionnaire dealt with six "childhood indicators" of later adult homosexuality: (1) interest in dolls, (2) cross-dressing, (3) preference for company of girls rather than boys in childhood games, (4) preference for company of older women rather than older men, (5) being regarded by other boys as a sissy, (6) sexual interest in other boys rather than girls in childhood sex play.
(18) If they think they will come across as a nit-picker or a ‘sissy’, it’s far rarer.” Stephen Burrell, 27, is a PhD student at Durham University researching domestic violence prevention work with young men.
(19) Replacing Tantawi is the head of military intelligence, Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi – one of the generals who defended the use of "virginity tests" against female protesters in March 2011 – with El-Assar as his deputy.
(20) Bette Davis was right when she said: “Old age is not for sissies.” In later life, after a break-up or death of a partner, you can’t go off to work, or anywhere much, to distract yourself from thoughts of what you have lost and miss.