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Effeminacy
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Effeminacy
Blue Boy
Gainsborough painting depicting princely lad with sissyish overtones. [Br. Art.: Misc.]
Fauntleroy, Little Lord
title-inheriting, yellow-curled sissy in velvet. [Am. Lit.: Little Lord Fauntleroy]
Percy
personification of “sissy.” [Pop. Culture: Misc.]
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When the Jets' coach met New England coach Bill Belichick at midfield after New York's 17-14 upset, Belichick, who attended the same college (Wesleyan in Connecticut) and who had supervised Mangini in his previous 11 NFL seasons, greeted his former assistant with a no-look, limp-wristed ``handshake.
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