Effeminate+man
111gussie — Australian Slang effeminate man (diminutive of the male name Augustus) …
112nancy — Australian Slang 1. effeminate man; 2. male homosexual …
113nancy boy — Australian Slang 1. effeminate man; 2. male homosexual …
114pansy boy — Australian Slang effeminate man …
115ponce — Australian Slang (derogatory) 1. male homosexual; 2. effeminate man; wimp; 3. (older slang) pimp; 4. (obsolete) vagina or vulva; 5. act as a pimp …
116cockney — c.1600, usually said to be from rare M.E. cokenei, cokeney spoiled child, milksop (late 14c.), originally cokene ey cock s egg (mid 14c.). Most likely disentangling of the etymology is to start from O.E. cocena cock s egg genitive plural of coc… …
117gussy — (v.) to dress up or decorate in a showy way, 1952, Amer.Eng. slang, apparently from Gussy (1940), schoolyard slang name for an overly dressed person, perhaps related to gussie (1901) effeminate man, and somehow connected to the nickname for… …
118mollycoddle — (v.) also molly coddle, 1870, from a noun (1833) meaning one who coddles himself, from Molly (pet name formation from Mary), which had been used contemptuously since 1754 for a milksop, an effeminate man, + CODDLE (Cf. coddle) (q.v.). Related:… …
119poof — (n.) effeminate man, male homosexual, c.1850, perhaps a corruption of puff. The Australian extended form poofter is attested from 1910 …
120sissy — 1846, sister, extended form of SIS (Cf. sis) (q.v.). Meaning effeminate man is recorded from 1887; the adj. in this sense is from 1891. Sissy bar is recorded from 1969 …
