sissy

See also: Sissy

English

Extended form of sis, from sister (“a female sibling”)

sissy (plural sissies)

(effeminate man or boy): cot-quean (obsolete), janegirl (“effeminate boy”) (rare)
(timid or cowardly person): coward, mama's boy, milquetoast, pansy, nancyboy, wussy, pussy (more offensive)

an effeminate boy or man

Cebuano: bayoti
Chinese:
Mandarin: 娘娘腔 (zh) (niángniángqiāng), 柔弱 (zh) (róuruò), 女人般的 (nǚrénbān de), 女人氣的 (zh), 女人气的 (zh) (nǚrénqì de)
French: efféminé (fr) m
German: Tunte (de) f
Italian: femminuccia (it) f
Japanese: シスターボーイ (shisutā bōi)

Navajo: ashkii tsaʼii
Portuguese: boiola (pt) m, bicha (pt)
Punjabi: ਜ਼ਨਾਨਡ਼ਾ (zanānṛā)
Russian: не́женка (ru) m, f (néženka), хлю́пик (ru) m (xljúpik), ба́ба (ru) f (bába)
Spanish: afeminado (es)
Swedish: fjolla (sv)

a timid, unassertive or cowardly person

Italian: femminuccia (it), coniglio (it), fifone (it), codardo (it), vigliacco (it), pollo (it), merlo (it), mollusco (it), pappamolle, smidollato (it), rammollito (it), pauroso (it), cacasotto (it), pisciasotto (it), eunuco (it), debole (it), mammoletta, pusillanime (it), vile (it)
Japanese: 弱虫 (よわむし, yowamushi), いくじなし (ikujinashi)
Norwegian: Pyse
Russian: трус (ru) m (trus), труси́шка (ru) m, f (trusíška), слаба́к (ru) m (slabák), ссыку́н (ru) m (ssykún) (vulgar)
Spanish: calzonazos (es) m

sister — see sis

sissy (comparative sissier, superlative sissiest)

(pejorative) Effeminate.
- 2000, Jeffery Deaver, Manhattan Is My Beat (revised edition), Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
  […] 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.
(pejorative) Cowardly.

effeminate

cowardly

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

sissy (uncountable)

(childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.
- 1997, Clark Moustakas, Relationship Play Therapy, →ISBN, page 160:
  She has to make. She has to make sissy.

childish: urination; urine

sissy (third-person singular simple present sissies, present participle sissying, simple past and past participle sissied)

(childish, colloquial) To urinate.
- 1979, Rhea Kohan, Save Me a Seat, →ISBN, page 25:
  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.

childish: to urinate

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