Sissy
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪsi
Origin
Extended form of sis, from sister ("a female sibling")
Full definition of sissy
Noun
sissy
(plural sissies)- (pejorative, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
- (pejorative, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
- (BDSM) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.
- (colloquial) Sister.
- (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)
Adjective
sissy
- (pejorative) Effeminate.
- 2000, Jeffery Deaver, (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.
- (pejorative) Cowardly.