sissy

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see also: Sissy

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪsi/

Noun

sissy (plural sissies)

1. (pejorative, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
2. (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.

3. (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.

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.

Synonyms

• (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

Antonyms

• non-sissy
• unsissy

Translations

• French: chochotte, lopette, fifi (Quebec)
• German: Weichling
• Italian: femminuccia
• Portuguese: boiola, bicha, maricas
• Russian: не́женка
• Spanish: afeminado

Translations

• 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

Adjective

sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)

1. (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.

2. (pejorative) cowardly#English|Cowardly.

Noun

sissy (uncountable)

1. (childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.

Verb

sissy

1. (childish, colloquial) To urinate.

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Sissy

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Proper noun

1. 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.

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