sissy

noun, adj, verb — 9 senses

sissy

noun

/ˈsɪsi/

Etymology From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.

1

Colloquial, Derogatory, Sometimes An effeminate boy or man.

2

Colloquial, Derogatory, Sometimes A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.

  • 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:
3

BDSM, Lifestyle, Sexuality A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.

  • 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.2018, Paul Zante, Sissy Dreams: Motel Sissy, page 4:
4

Colloquial, Dated Sister; often used as a term of address

  • "I so glad - so glad the wicked thing not hurt my sissy!" and in that moment of thankful joy the two children embraced each other with fond affection.1862, Charlotte Maria Tucker, Christian conquests, by A.L.O.E., page 61:
  • 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, milksop, coward, sis
Antonyms
non-sissy, unsissy
Derived terms
prissy, sissified, sissify, sissiness, sissy bar, sissyfication, sissygasm, sissy hypno, sissyish, sissyism, sissyphobia, sissy squat

sissy

adj

Etymology From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.

1

Derogatory Effeminate.

  • Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26:
  • […] 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:
2

Derogatory Cowardly.

sissy

verb

Etymology Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.

1

Childish, Colloquial To urinate.

  • 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.1979, Rhea Kohan, Save Me a Seat, →ISBN, page 25:

sissy

noun

Etymology Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.

1

Childish, Colloquial Urination; urine.

  • She has to make. She has to make sissy.1997, Clark Moustakas, Relationship Play Therapy, →ISBN, page 160:

sissy

verb

Etymology Clipping of sissygasm.

1

Rare, Slang, Vulgar To sissygasm (reach orgasm solely by penetration of the anus).

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