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sissier

sissier is the comparative form of sissy.

Meaning of sissy

Adjective

sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)

  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
  2. (derogatory) Cowardly.

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Questions about sissier

What is sissier the comparative form of?
Sissier is the comparative form of sissy.

Words near sissier in the dictionary

  1. sisserous
  2. sisses
  3. Sisseton
  4. sissie
  5. sissied
  6. sissier
  7. sissies
  8. sissiest
  9. sissification
  10. sissified
  11. sissifies

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