sissify
verbUS /ˈsɪ.səˌfaɪ/
Etymology From sissy + -fy.
1
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.1929, Society for the Advancement of Education, School & society, Volume 29:
- The trick was to find means of positioning a male consumer which did not feminize, emasculate or sissify him.1994, J. M. Bernstein, The Frankfurt School: critical assessments, Volume 6:
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