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sissy

nounadjectivenounverbverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈsɪsi//

An effeminate boy or man.

noun

  1. 1

    An effeminate boy or man.

  2. 2

    A 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.

  3. 3

    A 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.

  4. 4

    datedSister; 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.

    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.

Etymology

From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.

adjective

  1. 1

    Effeminate.

    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.

    […] 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.

  2. 2

    Cowardly.

noun

  1. 1

    Urination; urine.

    She has to make. She has to make sissy.

Etymology

Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.

verb

  1. 1

    To 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.

verb

  1. 1

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

Etymology

Clipping of sissygasm.

Forms

plural
sissies
comparative
sissier
superlative
sissiest
past tense
sissied
past participle
sissied
present participle
sissying
third person singular
sissies
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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).