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sissy colloq.|ˈsɪsɪ|
[f. sis n. + -y6; cf. cissy n. and a.]
1. A sister.
1846Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 22 Apr. 1/7 ‘Sissy Jane’ smoothed back my hair, and smiled at me. 1854Dickens Hard T. i. vi. 41 When Sissy got into the school here..her father was as pleased as Punch. 1859[see siss n.1]. 1865K. H. Digby Short Poems 39 The little one grasping, with such a tight hold, The frock of sweet sissy, herself not too bold. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xiii. 107 Don't be frightened, sissy, I never kiss girls. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 94 It made ma make merry and sissy so shy.
2. An effeminate person; a coward.
1887Lantern (New Orleans) 27 Aug. 3/2 Look and walk too much like sissies to do much fightin'. 1899T. Hall Tales 131 ‘Well, you are a sissy,’ said Blinks contemptuously. 1926British Weekly 9 Sept. 473/3 A religious ‘sissy’ was anathema to me. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237, I want red blood. I don't want no sissies, see? 1938L. MacNeice Zoo iv. 74 The Sealyham, say the older breeders, is becoming a sissy. 1969C. Himes Blind Man with Pistol ii. 25 The sissies..were colored and mostly young. They all had straightened hair..; long false eyelashes. 1977Time 21 Feb. 40/2 Smokers proved to be sissies when deprived of cigarettes.
3. attrib. or as adj.
a. Effeminate; cowardly.
1891Harper's Mag. Aug. 485/2 He approached and sat near me, deep in conversation with a young gentle⁓man with sissy whiskers. 1893Sunday Mercury (N.Y.) 14 May 15/5 (heading) Sissy men in Society.—Powdered, Painted and Laced. They swarm at Afternoon Teas. 1899T. Hall Tales 121 Scotty was, in the newspaper vernacular, ‘a sissy boy’, or, in other words, a bit effeminate. 1926British Weekly 2 Sept. 452/3 There was nothing ‘sissy’ about him. He was a born fighter. 1932S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 241 Thassa sissy sort of a name, but it'll do. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 152 The monuments..had apparently been produced by a pastry-cook under the influence of Persian art. Such sugary little scrolls and swaps, such sissy little flowers in pots, such coy little etchings of swords on the soldiers' tombs. 1959Spectator 25 Sept. 408/2 All the kudos goes to the campaign-scarred, ink-stained veteran: none to the new bug in his sissy clean blazer. 1970P. Dickinson tr. Aristophanes' Wasps in Plays I. 192 That sissy son of Chaireas prances In with his mincing walk. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xi. 260 No cutter ever wore gloves. They slowed a man down... Besides, gloves were sissy.
b. sissy bar, a metal loop rising from behind the seat of a bicycle or motor-cycle.
1969Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 19 June 40/1 (Advt.), The ‘Super Cycle’ breed with hi-rise handlebars on a cantilever frame{ddd}the 36{pp} Sissy bar, [etc.]. 1974R. B. Parker God save Child vi. 49 Another motorcycle... A big one,..small front wheel, sissy bar behind.
Hence sissifiˈcation, effeminacy; ˈsissified a., effeminate; ˈsissiness, effeminacy; ˈsissyish a., somewhat effeminate.
1889W. D. Howells Hazard of New Fortunes II. 64 The New York fellows carried canes..; and they were both sissyish and fast. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 78 To be seen with girls was not so ‘sissified’ in his mind as it used to be. 1926Harper's Mag. Feb. 350/2 In spite of his funny sissiness there was not a dog in town that did not love him. 1938I. Goldberg Wonder of Words xv. 305 Mr Sokolsky establishes a correlation between high blood-pressure and masculinity, and between low blood-pressure and femininity or sissification. 1959E. Pound Thrones xcix. 57 In statement, answer; in conversation Not with sissified fussiness (chiao') Always want your own way. 1973Guardian 1 June 10/5 The much-publicised Warhol Factory mystique..thinly veils a highly reactionary, bigoted and sissified neo-Nazi boutique. 1975N.Y. Times 12 Sept. 38/6 Mr. Mahan said that the other cowboys on the rodeo circuit had generally accepted his fashion business, and that none of them considered it ‘sissyish or effeminate’. |