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jessie

jessie noun: synonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.

Noun (1)

jessie (plural jessies)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Synonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.
    Synonyms:
    sissy

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Jessie

Jessie

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Jessica.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Jessie

Jessie

  1. A female given name.

Noun (2) capitalized: Jessie

Jessie (plural Jessies)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of jessie: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Jessie

Jessie

  1. (US, pronunciation-spelling) A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Jesse.

jessie meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

jessie in Hindi

जेस्सी

jessie in Tamil

ஜெஸ்ஸி, ஜெஸி

jessie in Urdu

جیسسی

jessie in Telugu

జెస్సీ
More languagesFewer languages
jessie in Malayalam
ജെസ്സി
jessie in Kannada
ಜೆಸ್ಸಿ, ಜೆಸ್ಸೀ
jessie in Gujarati
જેસ્સી
jessie in Odia
ଜେସ୍ସି
jessie in Nepali
जेस्सी

Synonyms of jessie

Forms of jessie

pluraljessies
pluralJessies

Origin of jessie

From Jessie as a diminutive of Jane, Jean, etc., here used in their extended sense of any young working-class girl.

From Jess + -ie.

A hypochoristic form of Jane, Jean, etc., possibly under the influence of lassie or -ess and -ie. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.

Words formed from jessie

Phrases with jessie

Questions about jessie

What does jessie mean?
Jessie means synonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.
What is jessie in Hindi?
Jessie in Hindi is जेस्सी. See Jessie meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jessie?
Jessie can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of jessie?
The plural of jessie is jessies.

Words near jessie in the dictionary

  1. Jessica Fletcher
  2. Jessicah
  3. Jessicas
  4. Jessicka
  5. Jessickah
  6. jessie
  7. jessies
  8. Jessika
  9. Jessikah
  10. Jessilyn
  11. jessing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jessie (page history and authors); Jessie (page history and authors); jessie (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jessie (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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