| 释义 |
cissy, n. and a. colloq.|ˈsɪsɪ|
Also ˈcissie.
= sissy 2.
1915T. L. Golden Let. 30 May in Lett. from Front (Canadian Bank of Commerce) (1920) I. 19 Ready to look down upon the Britisher as a good-for-nothing lady-like cissy. 1926Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 790/2 Of all the milk-and-water out-and-out Cissies this settlement beat the band! 1930Ibid. Apr. 228 It takes more than a cissy Englishman who couldn't find the hole in a doughnut to break trail across ‘the Barrens’. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. iii. 223, I can't stand those cissie pullovers. 1944L. Glassop We were Rats i. i. 5 It's me name, but it's too cissy, so I..picks up ‘Mick’. 1958P. Kemp No Colours or Crest iii. 40 Reason told me..that I was being a fool and a cissy. 1963Times 16 Feb. 12/4 The reason why some workers did not use protective equipment and clothing, which would have prevented many accidents, was that they regarded such things as ‘cissy’. |