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"A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli."
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"ref": "1979 April 21, Greg Jackson, “He Looks Like Tarzan But He Talks Like Jane”, in Gay Community News, page 17:",
"text": "From Christopher Street to Castro Street, these men are peddling the same message. I'm butch, a macho man. Well, it ain't necessarily so. In fact, as a general rule of thumb, the butcher the get-up, the nellier the wearer.",
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}
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"Unmanly; effeminate."
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"(slang) Unmanly; effeminate."
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"An effeminate homosexual man."
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"A silly person."
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"(British, slang) A silly person."
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"A giant petrel, Macronectes giganteus and Macronectes halli."
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