What does sissify mean?
Sissify means (transitive) To make sissy; to emasculate..
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/ˈsɪ.səˌfaɪ/ · verb
(transitive) 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.
The trick was to find means of positioning a male consumer which did not feminize, emasculate or sissify him.
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Sissify means (transitive) To make sissy; to emasculate..
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...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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