sissy
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8.5
- adjective
- /ˈsɪsi/
- Slur
:
afeminado (ofensivo, informal)
- I'm not a sissy boy, if that's what you mean.
- a sissy boy
- sissy stuff
- think it's sissy
These paper handing Sissy suits are going to be back and they're going to come back and go.
- These paper handing Sissy suits are going to be back and they're going to come back and go.
Examples
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Anything but a Jeep is a sissy car.
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So stop with this sissy nonsense about both sides being equally guilty.
Blog text (21) -
" And it's nice and warm too, huh, sissy?" I said.
Fiction book (2002) -
"Are you a sissy, boy?" he asked me.
Fiction book (1993) -
Although tennis courts were available, most students felt it a "sissy sport" and left it for the instructors.
Academic text (1991) -
Remafedi notes that "tomboys" are more accepted by their peers and parents than "sissy" boys.
Academic text (2003) -
I want some of those old awesome vampires, not the sissy vampires we see in Twilight or True Blood.
Blog text (28) -
The image of the cowboy, it would seem, had come full circle since the first sissy cowboy pranced across a movie set some five decades earlier.
Academic text (2012) -
Well, don't go all shy and delicate on me—you’re as sissy as little Miss Arthur Gayle.
Fiction book (1993) -
He refused to wear that sissy outfit because he wanted to look tough.
Synonyms
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3.4
Having style or qualities people often connect with women
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7.5
A male who looks or acts like a woman
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7.5
A casual, often teasing word for a girl who likes very feminine things
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8.4
Having the appearance or style people associate with women
A very traditional women's style with pink clothes and lots of makeup
Antonyms
How Masculine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sissy as an adjective comes from the same root sis 'sister' and the pet name sissy, meaning 'girlish'. That's why calling someone 'sissy' as an adjective describes a boy or man who has traits people think are feminine or who does not act in a traditional male way.