"sissify" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1929, Society for the Advancement of Education, School & society, Volume 29",
          "text": "...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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          "text": "The trick was to find means of positioning a male consumer which did not feminize, emasculate or sissify him.",
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        "To make sissy; to emasculate."
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        "(transitive) To make sissy; to emasculate."
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "verwijven"
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "ontmannen"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "efféminer"
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "émasculer"
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "verweichlichen"
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "entmannen"
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          "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
          "word": "emaskulieren"
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      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
      "word": "ontmannen"
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      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
      "word": "efféminer"
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
      "word": "émasculer"
    },
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
      "word": "verweichlichen"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
      "word": "entmannen"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make sissy; to emasculate.",
      "word": "emaskulieren"
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