• Sissy

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɪsi

    Origin

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

    Full definition of sissy

    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.

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    Adjective

    sissy

    1. (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.
    2. (pejorative) Cowardly.
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