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How to pronounce “effeminate”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of effeminate with real speech in context.
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- How Black Queer Culture Shaped History
As an effeminate Black kid growing up in Louisiana,
- Definition summary
- (often derogatory) Of a boy or man, exhibiting behavior or mannerisms considered typical of a woman or unmasculine.
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How to pronounce effeminate
How Black Queer Culture Shaped History
As an effeminate Black kid growing up in Louisiana,
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- (often derogatory) Of a boy or man, exhibiting behavior or mannerisms considered typical of a woman or unmasculine.
- (obsolete) Womanly; tender, affectionate, caring.
- [Verb]
- (transitive, archaic or nonstandard) To make womanly; to unman.
- (intransitive) To become womanly.
- [Noun]
- An effeminate person.
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