sissy
/ˈsɪsi/
sissy noun: an effeminate boy or man.
Noun (1)
sissy (plural sissies)
- An effeminate boy or man.
- Synonyms:
- effeminate man
- 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
- Synonyms:
- coward
- 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
- 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:
- sis
Adjective
sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)
- 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
- Cowardly.
Noun (2)
sissy (uncountable)
Verb (1)
sissy (third-person singular simple present sissies, present participle sissying, simple past and past participle sissied)
- 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
Verb (2)
sissy (third-person singular simple present sissies, present participle sissying, simple past and past participle sissied)
- To sissygasm (reach orgasm solely by penetration of the anus).
Proper noun capitalized: Sissy
Sissy
- A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.
- ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’
- ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.1854, Charles Dickens, “Book I, Chapter II”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC
sissy meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
sissy in Hindi
- सिस्सी
sissy in Tamil
- கோழை, ஆண்மையற்றவன், பெண்களின் குணம் கொண்டவன், பொட்டையான, சகோதரி
sissy in Urdu
- سسسی, سیسی
sissy in Bengali
- সিসসি
More languagesFewer languages
- sissy in Telugu
- సిస్సీ, సిస్సి, సిస్సీకి
- sissy in Malayalam
- സ്ത്രൈണസ്വഭാവമുള്ളൻ, പെണ്ണാണൻ, ദുർബ്ബലൻ, ബലഹീനൻ
- sissy in Kannada
- ದುರ್ಬಲ, ಹೇಡಿ ಹುಡುಗ, ಪುಕ್ಕಲ
- sissy in Punjabi
- ਜ਼ਨਾਨਡ਼ਾ
- sissy in Odia
- ସିସୀ, ସିସସି
- sissy in Nepali
- सिसी, सिससी
- sissy in Arabic
- مخنَّث
Synonyms of sissy
Antonyms
Forms of sissy
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sissies |
| alternative form | cissy |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | sissier |
| superlative | sissiest |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sissies |
| present participle | sissying |
| past participle | sissied |
| past | sissied |
Origin of sissy
From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.
Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.
Clipping of sissygasm.
Words formed from sissy
Phrases with sissy
Words that rhyme with sissy
Questions about sissy
- What does sissy mean?
- Sissy means an effeminate boy or man.
- What is sissy in Hindi?
- Sissy in Hindi is सिस्सी. See Sissy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sissy?
- Sissy can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sissy?
- Sissy is pronounced /ˈsɪsi/.
- What is the plural of sissy?
- The plural of sissy is sissies.
Words near sissy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sissy (page history and authors); Sissy (page history and authors); sissy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sissy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sissy (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sissy (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sissy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sissy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); sissy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sissy (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sissy (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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