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Effeminacy is a noun for the quality of being like what people have called “,” when that word is aimed at a man. Older English used it for a man's looks, voice, clothes, or manners that did not match the hard, tough picture of a man that those writers wanted. It was almost never a compliment. People treated it as a fault: too soft, too pretty, too careful. Though actually, the tidy dictionary line (“a man who looks or behaves like a woman”) is tidier than life. Plenty of men are gentle, like nice clothes, or cry, and that does not make them women — and plenty of women are not “soft” in the way the old insult pretends. Today the word feels dated, and many people find it or cruel, especially when it is used to police boys. You will still meet it in old novels, history, and essays about gender. It is a formal, loaded word, not a casual joke. If you need a kind description, say the person is gentle, or quiet, or not trying to look tough — do not reach for this noun.
娘娘腔、陰柔（指男性被說「像女生」的氣質；多半帶貶義，現在常顯得過時或不禮貌）
組成From effeminate + -cy (the suffix that turns an adjective into a quality, as in accuracy).
同家族的字
- effeminatethe adjective this noun is built from
- femininesame Latin root femina, 'woman' — but feminine is the ordinary word, and it is not an insult
- femalesame Latin root for 'woman'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
effeminacynoun
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The quality of being effeminate.
- It is an argument that cannot proceed but from a low Iudgment, or a ſpirit ſoothed with its owne Effeminaty, to ſay, He is Noble, he is a Courtier, he is a man of State, His quality tyeth him not to perfection, His vertue must be meaſured by the ell of the world, If he were ouer vertuous, the exceſſe of his Sanctity would be preiudiciall to his fortune.
- Certainly, though I dare not antedate the ſorrowes of our Syon, or raiſe a feare or iealouſie without a ground; yet when I doe but ſeriouſly and cordially ſuruay, that intollerable pride; that aboundance of idleneſſe; that fulneſſe of bread; that luſting after ſtrange fleſh (the ſinnes that drew downe fire and brimſtone vpon Sodome long agoe;) thoſe monſtrous habites, faſhions and attires: that exceſſiue vanity, Atheiſme and prophaneneſſe: that execrable and frequent banning, ſwearing, curſing and blaſpheming: that greedie couetouſneſſe, extortion and oppreſſion; that fearefull murther and bloudſhed; that ſcurrility, effæminacie, wantonneſſe, fornication, whoredome, adulterie and vncleaneneſſe: that generall neglect, contempt and hatred of God, of grace, of goodneſſe, and the Goſpell: that ſtupified and ſenceleſſe ſecurity, and hardneſſe of heart, in the middeſt of feares and dangers: that degenerating and growing worſe and worſe, not withſtanding all Gods iudgements, which ſtill encreaſe vpon vs, becauſe our ſinnes encreaſe: that diſſoluteneſſe, that drunkenneſſe, deboiſtneſſe, and exceſſe of Healthes; together with thoſe other troopes of ſundry ſinnes, which walke ſo bold and thick among vs, in deſpite of all thoſe meanes which GOD hath vſed to reclaime vs from them: I cannot but conclude as others doe: that theſe abominations and ſinnes of ours (eſpecially in theſe times of feare and danger, which cry and call for true repentance) prognoſticate no victory, no good, no bleſſing, nor ſucceſſe: but vndoubted ruine and deſtruction to vs, vnleſſe we ſpeedily repent vs of them.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。