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US
/ˈsɪsi/
]
[ UK /sˈɪsi/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪsi/ ]
NOUN
- a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
ADJECTIVE
- having unsuitable feminine qualities
How To Use sissy In A Sentence
- He may be anÂignorantÂor thoughtless person, but I no more think he is a homophobe for using the word "faggot" than I believe any of you areÂhomophobesÂfor using the word "sissy. Scott Mendelson: Thoughts On The Brett Ratner Mess: When Explicit Slurs Become Part Of Everyday Language And How To Deal With Their Casual And Out-of-Context Use
- Dr. Robbins looked hard at Sissy's preaxial digits, then at his own. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Sissy went out back and gathered feathers where her mama had recently deplumed a hen. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Broad-based, timeless and dreamful, Sissy is the Indian. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
- Bella knew some little girls in the house, but in a ceremonious way; Tom had formed no friendships among the boys at school such as he had left in Boston; as nearly as he could explain, the New York fellows carried canes at an age when they would have had them broken for them by the other boys at Boston; and they were both sissyish and fast. Complete March Family Trilogy
- taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'
- But at least two of the other portraits seem positively sissyish. NYT > Home Page
- He railed at his daughter Susan for being chubby (he wanted her to be as sleek and blond and country-clubbish as the daughters of his neighbors), criticized his son Ben for being a sissy, and seemed to love only his youngest child, Federico (born in Italy). John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes
- Put that real gun back in the counter and let me see the sissy-looking pea-shooter again.
- In both sets of thumbs, Sissy's and his own, Dr. Robbins could see shafts, flat on the volar surface, smooth and rounded on the dorsal surface, that is, semicylindrical in shape. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues