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Sissy

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.

    ‘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.

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

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).