Sissy

Definition: Sissy

Sissy

Adjective

1. Having unsuitable feminine qualities.

Noun

1. A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Sissy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be blind".

Date "sissy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sissy

Woman

Sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman.

Tough kids, sissy kids, kids who climb on rocks (Monsters, Inc.; writing credit: Robert L. Baird; Jill Culton)

Look at him with that sissy, stringy thing (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal)

Bit of a sissy, isn't he (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis)

They shouldn't have called me a sissy. (Undercover Brother; writing credit: Eran Merav)

Seems to me a man would remember an ugly one-eyed coward six and a half foot tall with no hair and a sissy hat. (The Magnificent Seven; writing credit: Josef Anderson; Chris Black)

Sissy Sheriff (1967)

Prinzessin Sissy (1938)

The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)

Disciplined Sissy (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Country Girl: The Life of Sissy Spacek (reference)

• Sarah, Sissy Weed, and the Ships of the Desert (reference)

• Sissy Buttons Takes Charge! (reference)

• Sissy Kid Brother (reference)

• Sissy the Alligator (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Come on Sissy Fuzz (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sissy": sissy boy. Additional references.

Albanian

pulë e lagur, motër (nurse, sibling, sister). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخنث (effeminate, molly-coddle, womanish, womanly), ‏جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, spiritless, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхлив (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, funky, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, spiritless), глезен (ankle, sissified, skittish, spoilt, talus, tarsus), момиченце (backfisch, girlie), мамино детенце (mollycoddle), мамин син, женствен (effeminate, emasculate, girlish, ladylike, pansy, soft, womanish), пъзльо (funk). (various references)

Czech

padavka (weakling, wind-fall), citlivka (Mimosa). (various references)

Farsi 

مردیابچه زن صفت (Sissified), دختر (Daughter, Gal, Girl, Girlie, Lass, Maid, Quean, Sissified, Wench). (various references)

French

poule mouillée, peureux, efféminé. (various references)

German

Weichling (milksop, mollycoddle, softie, softy, weakling). (various references)

Greek 

αδελφούλα, θηλυδρίασ. (various references)

Hebrew 

יל�" � שי. (various references)

Hungarian

puhány (boneless, cissy, milksop, mollusc, weakling), nőies fiú, kislány (a bit of muslin, gal, girl, lassie, pixy). (various references)

Italian

femminiccia, effeminato (cissy, effeminate, emasculate), donnicciola. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

シグモイド関数 (San Francisco, scissors cut, shish-kebabs, sigmoid function, signal ground, sister, sysop, system, System 5, system bus, system camera, system component, system converter, system house, system kitchen, system menu, system operator, system television, systematic, systems, systems administrator, systems analysis, systems analyst, systems approach, systems design, systems designer, systems engineer, systems engineering, systems flow chard, systems hacking, systems network, systems planner). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

シスターボーイ . (various references)

Manx

soailtagh (effeminate, effeminate man, puff, queer), boob (cry of the bittern, effeminate male child). (various references)

Pig Latin

issysay.(various references)

Portuguese

pessoa efeminada, maricas (home-bird, milksop, molly, molly-coddle). (various references)

Romanian

surioarã (sis, siss), timid (bashful, coy, diffident, hesitating, maiden, maidenly, milky, mousy, pigeon-hearted, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), homosexual (faggot, gay, homo, homosexual, Nancy, paederast, pansy, pederast, queer). (various references)

Russian 

неженка (coddle, mollycoddle, tenderling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

curica (lass), šonja. (various references)

Spanish

afeminado (camp, effeminate, ladylike, pantywaist, unmanly, womanish). (various references)

Swedish

vekling (mollycoddle, weakling). (various references)

Thai

เ�"็กผู้หญิงตัวเล็กๆ, คนขี้อาย. (various references)

Turkish

muhallebi çocuğu (cissy, jellyfish, milksop, mollycoddle, tenderfoot), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, 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, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, spiritless, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), hanım evlâdı (Molly, mollycoddle, mother's darling, softy). (various references)

Ukrainian

сестричка, пестунчик (nurseling, nursling, pet). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sissy": sissyish. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sissy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assisy, dissy, isss, Issy, kissy, lissy, Nissy, pissy, sasie, Sassay, sassey, sassi, sassie, sasy, secay, seccy, Seisay, Sessay, Sessey, Sesso, sgss, Shitsby, siess, siksi, sisi, sisid, sisie, sism, Sissay, sissi, sissie, sissil, sisu, sizey, sossy, sss, ssso, susy, tissy, Zsuzsi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: sis.

-3 letters: is, si.

+2 letters: missays, sassily, stypsis, sycosis, synesis.

+3 letters: essayist, isostasy, misassay, sissyish, skysails, stylises, stylists, synapsis, syndesis, synopsis.

+4 letters: asynapsis, bioassays, essayists, gypsyisms, misassays, misstyles, mistrysts, psychosis, pyrosises, sannyasis, sinlessly, staysails, stylisers, stypsises, syllepsis, symbioses, symbiosis, symphysis, synapsids, syneresis, synesises, synizeses, synizesis, synthesis, systemics.

+5 letters: boyishness, byssinoses, byssinosis, dissatisfy, dyscrasias, dysgenesis, dyspepsias, dyspepsies, dysphasias, dysphasics, dysplasias, ecdysiasts, essayistic, histolyses, histolysis, hypostasis, hysteresis, listlessly, misassayed, myositises, myosotises, mysticisms, phylesises, physicists, rescissory, sannyasins, satyriases, satyriasis, sensuosity, solvolysis, stylistics, syllogisms, syllogists, symbolises, symbolisms, symbolists, symposiast, symposiums, synaeresis, syndesises, synergisms, synergists, synopsizes, synostosis, synthesist, syphilises, systemizes, yeastiness.