jessie

Examples

• All

• Can they reach Jessie and Stinky Pete in time?

  Toy Story 2 (1999)

• Mary always gets scared during thunderstorm warnings; she's such a Jessie.

• - Jessie, Jessie, let me help you.

  TransSiberian (2008)

• You two run off with Jessie and leave me here alone.

  The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)

• "Be careful with her," Jessie said to him.

  Fiction book (1992)

• So nice to see you, Jessie.

  Harry and Tonto (1974)

• Justice just turns to look at Jessie, then she walks on.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I worked so hard last year, I hardly saw Jessie.

  Lovely & Amazing (2002)

• Unable to sleep himself, Jessie stays up and watches.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Sometimes Jessie wanders around the kitchen and living room, drinking too much wine.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

F

fraidy-cat

vsjessie

• Informal

3 8.1

A person who gets scared easily

is used mainly in British speech and means overly timid

S

scaredy-cat

vsjessie

• Offensive

1 8.5

Easily scared by things that are not very dangerous

is the British informal term for someone more generally overly timid

F

fraidy

vsjessie

• Informal

1 9.9

A person who is easily frightened

is chiefly British and stresses being overly timid

W

wuzzy

vsjessie

• Informal

9.9

A person who is easily frightened and not brave

is chiefly British and focuses on being excessively timid

Idioms

A

to act like a jessie

• Offensive

9.9

To behave in a weak, scared way instead of being brave

How Timid

coward

• Offensive

584 2.3

jessie

• UK

141 9.9

shy person

4 2.5

Surface Forms

Etymology