sissy

See also Sissy

English

Etymology

Extended form of sis, from sister (“a female sibling”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪsi

Noun

sissy (plural sissies)

1. (pejorative, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
2. (pejorative, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
3. (BDSM) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.
4. (colloquial) Sister.
5. (childish, colloquial) Urination.

Synonyms

• (timid or cowardly person): mama's boy, pansy, nancyboy
• (effeminated boy): janegirl

Derived terms

• prissy
• sissified
• sissy bar (a passenger backrest for a motorcycle or bicycle)
• sissyphobia
• sissy squat (a weightlifting exercise emphasizing knee extension)

Translations

an effeminate boy or man

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 娘娘腔 (cmn) (niángniangqiāng), 柔弱 (cmn) (róuruò), 女人般的 (cmn) (nǚrénbān de), 女人氣的 (cmn), 女人气的 (cmn) (nǚrénqì de)

• French: efféminé (fr) m
• German: Tunte (de) f
• Japanese: シスターボーイ (ja) (shisutā bōi)

• Portuguese: boiola (pt) m, bicha (pt)
• Punjabi: ਜ਼ਨਾਨਡ਼ਾ (zanānṛā)
• Russian: неженка (ru) (néženka) m and f, хлюпик (ru) (xljúpik) m, баба (ru) (bába) f
• Spanish: afeminado (es)
• Swedish: fjolla (sv)

a timid, unassertive or cowardly person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膽小鬼 (cmn), 胆小鬼 (cmn) (dǎnxiǎoguǐ), 懦夫 (cmn) (nuòfū)

• Finnish: nynny, mammanpoika, nyhverö, nössö (fi)
• French: tapette (fr) f, poule mouillée (fr) f
• German: Weichling (de) m, Weichei (de) n, Schlappschwanz (de) m, Memme (de) f

• Japanese: 弱虫 (ja) (よわむし, yowamushi), いくじなし (ja) (ikujinashi)
• Norwegian: Pyse (no)
• Russian: трус (ru) (trus) m, трусишка (ru) (trusíška) m and f, слабак (ru) (slabák) m, ссыкун (ru) (ssykún) m (vulgar)
• Spanish: calzonazos (es) m

sister

• Finnish: systeri (fi)
• German: Schwesterchen (de) n
• Japanese: 姉ちゃん (ja) (ねえちゃん, nēchan) (big sister only, little sisters are addressed by name)

• Russian: сестрёнка (ru) (sestrjónka) f, сестрица (ru) (sestríca) f, сестричка (ru) (sestríčka) f

urination (childish) — see wee-wee

Adjective

sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)

1. (pejorative) Effeminate.
   • 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat (revised edition), Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-58176-7, page 173:

     […] she’d decided the wrapping paper was too feminine. It had a viney pattern that wasn’t anything sissier than you’d see in the old Arabian Nights illustrations. But Richard might think they were flowers.

2. (pejorative) Cowardly.