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- [sis-ee]
- /ˈsɪs i/
- /ˈsɪs.i/
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- [sis-ee]
- /ˈsɪs i/
Definitions of sissy word
- noun plural sissy Disparaging and Offensive. an effeminate boy or man. 1
- noun plural sissy a timid or cowardly person. 1
- noun plural sissy a sister, especially a younger sister. 1
- adjective sissy of, relating to, or characteristic of a sissy. 1
- noun sissy coward 1
- noun sissy effeminate boy 1
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Origin of sissy
First appearance:
before 1840 One of the 33% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1840-50; sis + -y2
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Parts of speech for Sissy
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sissy popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sissy
adj sissy
- babyish — Babyish actions, feelings, or looks are like a baby's, or are immature.
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- chicken-hearted — easily frightened; cowardly
- frightened — thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.
- goody goody — a person who is self-righteously, affectedly, or cloyingly good.
noun sissy
- crybaby — If someone calls a child a crybaby, they mean that the child cries a lot for no good reason.
- daisies — any of various composite plants the flowers of which have a yellow disk and white rays, as the English daisy and the oxeye daisy.
- daisy — A daisy is a small wild flower with a yellow centre and white petals.
- effeminacy — the state or quality of being effeminate.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
adjective sissy
- epicene — Having characteristics of both sexes or no characteristics of either sex; of indeterminate sex.
- jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
- rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- womanlike — like a woman; womanly.
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