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Definition: Cissy |
CissyAdjective1. Having unsuitable feminine qualities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cissy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a Frenchman". |
Synonyms: CissySynonyms: effeminate (adj), emasculate (adj), epicene (adj), sissified (adj), sissy (adj), sissyish (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | How Cissy Made Good (1914) Cissy Fitzgerald (1896) Our Cissy (1974) | |
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Books | |
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| "Cissy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 43.75% of the time. "Cissy" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 43.75% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 31.25% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Cissy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a Frenchman". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Cissy." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Cissy | Female | N/A | Frances |
| Fannie | Female | English | Frances |
| Fanny | Female | English | Frances |
| Fran | Female | English | Frances |
| Frances | Female | English | Francis |
| Francis | Male, Female | English | N/A |
| Frannie | Female | English | Frances |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cissy | 26 |
madame alexander cissy | 13 |
cissy houston | 12 |
cissy lack | 10 |
cissy pierce | 6 |
cissy moran | 5 |
cissy doll | 5 |
cissy m | 3 |
cissy wang | 2 |
cissy pascal | 2 |
madame alexander cissy doll | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cissy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | мамино синче (milksop). (various references) | |
Hungarian | puhány (boneless, milksop, mollusc, sissy, weakling). (various references) | |
Italian | effeminato (effeminate, emasculate, sissy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | issycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garota (girl, girlie, lass, lassie, pussycat, wench). (various references) | |
Russian | девочка (female child, girl, girlie, sissy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slabić (dicky, lame duck, milksop, weakling), mekušac (milksop, mollusc, mollusk, molly, mollycoddle, molly-coddle, softy). (various references) | |
Spanish | mariquita (ladybird, ladybug, sissy). (various references) | |
Swedish | förverkligad pojke. (various references) | |
Turkish | muhallebi çocuğu (jellyfish, milksop, mollycoddle, sissy, tenderfoot), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), hanım avlâdı, çekingen kimse (milquetoast), çıtkırıldım kimse. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: sics. | |
-2 letters: cis, icy, sic, sis. | |
-3 letters: is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: cyesis. | |
+2 letters: ecdysis, mycosis, mystics, physics, sycosis, syndics. | |
+3 letters: chymists, classify, classily, copyists, cyanosis, cycasins, cyclists, cyclosis, cysteins, cystines, cystitis, cystoids, psychics, pycnosis, sacristy, sickbays, styptics, systemic, systolic. | |
+4 letters: calisayas, caryopsis, casuistry, catalysis, chrysalis, chymosins, cronyisms, cynicisms, cysteines, cytolysis, cytosines, dyscrasia, dyslexics, dysphasic, dystocias, ecdysiast, hyoscines, hysterics, joysticks, lychnises, lyricises, lyricisms, lyricists, mysticism, necessity, physicals, physicist, psychosis, sickishly, spagyrics, stylistic, succinyls, sycamines, syllabics, synclines, systaltic, systemics, viscosity, viscously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Derived from 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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