sissy

plural sissies · alternative cissy

1. colloquialderogatorysometimesAn effeminate boy or man.

   Synonyms: effeminate man

2. colloquialderogatorysometimesA 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

3. BDSMA 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

4. colloquialdatedSister; 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

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   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

comparative sissier · superlative sissiest

1. derogatoryEffeminate.

   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

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   […] 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

2. derogatoryCowardly.

1. childishcolloquialuncountableUrination; urine.

   She has to make. She has to make sissy.

   1997, Clark Moustakas, Relationship Play Therapy, →ISBN, page 160

present singular third person sissies · participle present sissying · participle past sissied · past sissied

1. childishcolloquialTo 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

present singular third person sissies · participle present sissying · participle past sissied · past sissied

1. intransitiverareslangvulgarTo sissygasm (reach orgasm solely by penetration of the anus).

1. A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.

   “He'd give the store away if Sissy and I let him,” said Dreama.

   2013, Lee Martin, Southern Psalms, page 70

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   ‘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