Definitions

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  • noun The property of being sissy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man)

Etymologies

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sissy +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • This sissy would like to confess their long term sissiness whilst wearing her frilly white trimmed panties and grey dress to Mistress Cassie.

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • This sissy would like to confess their long term sissiness whilst wearing her frilly white trimmed panties and grey dress to Mistress Cassie.

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • And his sissiness is fertile ground for lampooning.

    Why can't we joke about Obama? Ann Althouse 2008

  • And you complained about our “sissiness” while simultaneously admitting that you let your squeamishness set your politics.

    Homophobic men and Misogyny–do they go hand in hand? 2005

  • The fact is that any Democrat's heroic war record functions mostly as superficial innoculation against charges of sissiness during campaigns, and it's the reason you see so many more Republican chickenhawks than anti-war Dems in public office these days.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • The fact is that any Democrat's heroic war record functions mostly as superficial innoculation against charges of sissiness during campaigns, and it's the reason you see so many more Republican chickenhawks than anti-war Dems in public office these days.

    Hullabaloo 2004

  • Men no longer regard creased trousers, nicely tied cravats, well-chosen collars, and harmonious color combinations as signs of sissiness, snobbishness, or weak-mindedness.

    The Book of Business Etiquette Nella Henney

  • It was fun for them, besides they felt it would be a service to knock out some of the Boston “sissiness.”

    A Backward Glance at Eighty Murdock, Charles A 1921

  • If you're willing to be prime minister without getting the public to vote for you, it's just lily-livered sissiness to let the fact your colleagues won't vote for you either stand in your way.

    newmatilda.com - Comments Syd Walker 2009

  • Edith B, I just checked a dictionary and found three derivative words listed below "sissy": the noun sissiness and the adjectives sissified and sissyish.

    Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle 2008

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