sissy
See also: Sissy
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
sissy (plural sissies)
- (derogatory, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
- (derogatory, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
- 1963, Robert Smith, Pro Football: The History of the Game and the Great Players (page 144)
- This was all part of football and if any man was such a sissy he could not stand it, then he had better seek the sidelines.
- 1963, Robert Smith, Pro Football: The History of the Game and the Great Players (page 144)
- (BDSM) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.
- (Can we date this quote?), Paul Zante, Sissy Dreams: Motel Sissy (page 4)
- I realised I still held my normal male clothes and dropped them to the floor under the desk, out of the way. […] Would it hurt? Yes, I knew it would from watching videos of sissies being spanked by their dominant mistresses.
- (Can we date this quote?), Paul Zante, Sissy Dreams: Motel Sissy (page 4)
- (colloquial) Sister.
- 2008, Rita T. Kohn, William Lynwood Montell, Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians
- Her seven-year-old brother Justin sat on my lap beside her casket. I explained to him why we were staying with his sissy. He wouldn't leave; he stayed, too. He kissed her, touched her hand, told her he would miss her.
- 2008, Rita T. Kohn, William Lynwood Montell, Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians
Synonyms
- (effeminate man or boy): cot-quean (obsolete), janegirl (“effeminate boy”) (rare)
- (timid or cowardly person): See Thesaurus:coward
Antonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms
- sissyphobia
- sissy squat (a weightlifting exercise emphasizing knee extension)
Translations
an effeminate boy or man
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a timid, unassertive or cowardly person
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sister — see sis
Adjective
sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)
- (derogatory) Effeminate.
- 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat (revised edition), Bantam Books, →ISBN, 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.
- 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat (revised edition), Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
- (derogatory) Cowardly.
Translations
effeminate
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cowardly
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Etymology 2
Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.
Noun
sissy (uncountable)
- (childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.
- 1997, Clark Moustakas, Relationship Play Therapy, →ISBN, page 160:
- She has to make. She has to make sissy.
Translations
childish: urination; urine
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Verb
sissy (third-person singular simple present siss, present participle ies, simple past and past participle sissied)
- (childish, colloquial) To urinate.
- 1979, Rhea Kohan, Save Me a Seat, →ISBN, page 25:
- Joan recognized her as the girl whose son had sissied on her pants. She was still dabbing at her pantleg with a damp paper towel.
Translations
childish: to urinate
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