Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsɪsi/
sissy (plural sissies)
- (pejorative, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
- (pejorative, 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.
, 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.
- (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
- (effeminate man or boy) cot-quean (obsolete), janegirl (rare); see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
- (timid or cowardly person) milquetoast, nancy, quiche-eater; see also Thesaurus:milksop
- (sister) sis
- non-sissy
- unsissy
- French: chochotte, lopette, fifi (Quebec)
- German: Weichling
- Italian: femminuccia
- Portuguese: boiola, bicha, maricas
- Russian: не́женка
- Spanish: afeminado
- French: poule mouillée, gonzesse, chochotte
- German: Jammerlappen
- Italian: femminuccia, coniglio, fifone, codardo, vigliacco, pollo, merlo, mollusco, pappamolle, smidollato, rammollito, pauroso, cacasotto, pisciasotto, eunuco, debole, mammoletta, pusillanime, vile
- Russian: трус
- Spanish: calzonazos
sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)
- (pejorative) effeminate#English|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.
- 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat (revised edition), Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-58176-7, page 173 ↗:
- (pejorative) cowardly#English|Cowardly.
sissy (uncountable)
Verbsissy
- (childish, colloquial) To urinate.
Sissy
Proper noun
- A female given name.
- 1854 Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book I, Chapter II:
- ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’
‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.
- ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’
- 1854 Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book I, Chapter II:
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