sissify

sissify
To make sissy; to emasculate.

...there does seem, from this study, basis for a not uncommon charge that American schools tend to baby and sissify the boys.

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  • sissify — /ˈsɪsifaɪ/ (say siseefuy), /ˈsɪsəfaɪ/ (say sisuhfuy) verb (t) (sissified, sissifying) (derogatory) to feminise. –sissified, adjective –sissification, noun …  

  • Feminisierung (BDSM) — Unter Feminisierung versteht man im BDSM Jargon ein erotisches Rollenspiel, in dem ein Mann durch Kleidung und Verhalten in die Rolle einer Frau schlüpft. Es ist eine spielerische Form des Crossdressing. In der BDSM Szene bezeichnet man… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • castrate — Synonyms and related words: alter, beat down, bleed, break, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, change, clamp down on, coerce, compel, cow, cripple, daunt, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, despotize, devitalize, disable, domineer, domineer over, drain,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • demasculinize — Synonyms and related words: castrate, desex, desexualize, devitalize, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, enervate, etiolate, exhaust, geld, sissify, soften, sterilize, unman, unnerve, womanize …   Moby Thesaurus

  • effeminize — Synonyms and related words: castrate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, effeminate, effeminatize, emasculate, enervate, etiolate, exhaust, geld, sissify, soften, sterilize, unman, unnerve, womanize …   Moby Thesaurus

  • emasculate — Synonyms and related words: alter, castrate, cripple, debilitate, demasculinize, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, enervate, etiolate, eunuchize, exhaust, fix, forceless, geld, hamstring, hobble,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • geld — Synonyms and related words: alter, castrate, change, demasculinize, desexualize, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, eunuchize, fix, mutilate, neuter, sissify, soften, spay, unsex, womanize …   Moby Thesaurus

  • soften — Synonyms and related words: abate, absorb the shock, adjust to, affect, agree, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assent, assuage, attemper, baffle, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, blur, box in, break the fall, castrate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • womanize — Synonyms and related words: be promiscuous, castrate, chase women, commit adultery, debauch, demasculinize, dissipate, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, fool around, fornicate, geld, grovel, mess around, philander, play around,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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