effeminate

adjective

🔊/ɪˈfemɪnət/

(disapproving)

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(of a man or a boy男人或男孩) looking, behaving or sounding like a woman or a girl女人气的
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin effeminatus, past participle of effeminare ‘make feminine’, from ex- (expressing a change of state) + femina ‘woman’.