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When Aeschines was accused of treason by Athenians Timarchus and Demosthenes in 346 BC he brought a counter suit claiming Timarchus had prostituted himself to (or been "kept" by) to other men ( Against Timarchus, and also attributed also Demosthenes' nickname Batalos ("arse") to his "unmanliness and kinaidiā" and frequently commented on his "unmanly and womanish temper", even criticising his clothing: "If anyone took those dainty little coats and soft shirts off you. Greek historian Plutarch recounts that Periander, the tyrant of Ambracia, asked his "boy", "Aren't you pregnant yet?" in the presence of other people, causing the boy to kill him in revenge for being treated as if effeminate or a woman ( Amatorius 768F). The Younger Apollo Teaching Hyacinth to Play Lyra by Louis de Boullogne The term girly boy comes from a gender-inversion of girly girl. The term tomgirl, meaning a girlish boy, comes from an inversion of tomboy, meaning a boyish girl. The word effete similarly means effeminacy or over-refinement, but comes from the Latin term effetus meaning 'having given birth exhausted', from ex- and fetus 'offspring'. Other vernacular words for effeminacy include: pansy, nelly, pretty boy, nancy boy, girly boy, molly, sissy, pussy, tomgirl, femboy, roseboy, and girl (when applied to a boy or, especially, adult man). This term has been borrowed from the Greek kinaidos (which may itself have come from a language of Ionian Greeks of Asia Minor, primarily signifying a purely effeminate dancer who entertained his audiences with a tympanum or tambourine in his hand, and adopted a lascivious style, often suggestively wiggling his buttocks in such a way as to suggest anal intercourse.The primary meaning of cinaedus never died out the term never became a dead metaphor." Indeed, the word's etymology suggests an indirect sexual act emulating a promiscuous woman. "A cinaedus is a man who cross-dresses or flirts like a girl. In ancient Koine Greek, the word for effeminate is κίναιδος kinaidos ( cinaedus in its Latinized form), or μαλακοί malakoi: a man "whose most salient feature was a supposedly 'feminine' love of being sexually penetrated by other men". Another Latin term is mollities, meaning 'softness'. Effeminate comes from Latin effeminātus, from the factitive prefix ex- (from ex 'out') and femina 'woman' it means 'made feminine, emasculated, weakened'.