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单词 effeminator
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effeminatorn.

Brit. /ᵻˈfɛmᵻneɪtə/, U.S. /əˈfɛməˌneɪdər/, /iˈfɛməˌneɪdər/
Forms: 1600s– effeminator, 1600s effeminatour.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: effeminate v., -or suffix.
Etymology: < effeminate v. + -or suffix.In sense 2 probably after German Effeminator (1925 or earlier), perhaps itself after English emasculator n. (in its specific application to instruments used to castrate male animals).
1. A person who or thing which makes something or someone effeminate, unmanly, or enervated. Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.).
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man > he who or that which renders effeminate
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1617 R. Brathwait Smoaking Age in tr. ‘B. Multibibus’ Solemne Ioviall Disputation 177 [Referring to the smoking of tobacco.] A dissolver of states; a weakener of spirits; an enfeebler of strength; an effeminator of youth; and a besotter of Age.
1659 Maze 25 Sloath and delicacy is the onely effeminator of Man.
1773 Ainsworth's Dict. (new ed.) II. Effeminator, he that maketh effeminate.
1917 N.Y. Tribune 30 Sept. 3/3 Christianity is discarded in the Nietzschean sense as the effeminator and enervator of the peoples.
2. Veterinary Medicine. A surgical instrument used to remove the ovaries of cows or other female animals (and for various other procedures).Recorded earliest as a modifier, designating such a device.
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1961 Vet. Rec. 28 Jan. 88 (heading) Effeminator Springs in Cattle.
1964 Nordisk Veterinärmedicin 16 503 As bloody castration of female cattle may be seriously complicated. Trials of the unbloody method of castration with the Hustin effeminator were found indicated.
2018 A. D. Weaver et al. Bovine Surgery & Lameness (ed. 3) vi. 207 Insert hand to enlarge peritoneal incision and locate ovaries; remove ovaries with small effeminator.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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