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How to pronounce sissy in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms milksop, milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist
Type of coward
Type Words
Synonyms cissy, effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissyish
Derivation sissiness

Examples of sissy

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You can bet Willie Nelson's grandpappy didn't mop his plate with no sissy bread.
From the post-gazette.com
The very name-Boy Scout-is practically a synonym for sissy, goody-goody, square.
From the time.com
Shearer must go for the jagular, not just the sissy move of demoting Cunliffe.
From the nbr.co.nz
And don't be such a sissy when people aren't treating you with kid gloves, either.
From the economist.com
Why would they waste all this money and drill-able land for sissy pants solar.
From the forbes.com
Sissy things like plot and character development aren't worthy of the mission.
From the cairns.com.au
Sissy Republicans whine to newspaper columnists about their inner moral conflicts.
From the orlandosentinel.com
But she doesn't use one of those sissy kitchen torches from a cookware shop.
From the ocregister.com
This is a blasphemous use of a religious article, not some sissy boy wearing jewelry.
From the washingtontimes.com
More examples
  • A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
  • Effeminate: having unsuitable feminine qualities
  • Sissy is a pejorative for a boy or man to indicate that he fails to behave according to the traditional male gender role. Generally, it implies a lack of the courage and stoicism which are thought important to the male role. It might also imply interests seen as strikingly un-masculine. ...
  • A sissy is a man who crossdresses, adopts hyper-feminine behaviors, and engages in stereotypical "feminine" activities (e.g. housekeeping, putting on make-up), often within the context of BDSM. ...
  • The Sissies were an American pop-punk band based in Bloomington, Indiana. Formed in 1998, the band released two albums before breaking up in 2002: 1999's Geography, released on Plan-it-X Records, and 2001's Look Back and Laugh on New Disorder Records. ...
  • An effeminate boy or man; A timid, unassertive or cowardly person; sister; Urination
  • (sissies) Iyoulikeyoutoo 11 months ago
  • A man whose behavior is unmanly; a man or boy who behaves like a girl or a woman.
  • Noun, A male who likes to dress like a baby girl. A common ground between infantilism and transvestism