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Bimbo vs Sissy - What's the difference?

bimbo | sissy |

As nouns the difference between bimbo and sissy

is that bimbo is a physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence while sissy is an effeminate boy or man.

As an adjective sissy is

effeminate.

As a verb sissy is

to urinate.

As a proper noun Sissy is

{{given name|female|diminutive=Cecilia}}.

bimbo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (derogatory, slang) A physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence.
  • (derogatory, slang) A stupid or a foolish person.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Derived terms

    * bimbodom * bimbette * bimboesque * bimbohood * bimboism * himbo

    Quotations

    (physically attractive woman who lacks intelligence) * A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake. — * 2004': Fey [...] makes hay with the thought processes of a purebred '''bimbo — ''(The New Yorker) , 10 May 2004. (stupid or foolish person) * {{quote-book, i1=* , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter III , passage=And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop.}} * {{quote-book, i1=* , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XIII , passage=Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.}}

    See also

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    References

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    sissy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Extended form of

    Noun

    (sissies)
  • (pejorative, colloquial) An effeminate boy or man.
  • (pejorative, colloquial) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person.
  • (BDSM) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours.
  • (colloquial) Sister.
  • Synonyms
    * (timid or cowardly person) mama's boy, pansy, nancyboy * (effeminate boy) janegirl
    Derived terms
    * prissy * sissified * sissy bar (a passenger backrest for a motorcycle or bicycle) * sissyphobia * sissy squat (a weightlifting exercise emphasizing knee extension)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (pejorative) .
  • * 2000 , (revised edition), Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-58176-7, 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) .
  • Etymology 2

    Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to (etyl) . Compare piss; wee-wee.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.
  • *
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (childish, colloquial) To urinate.
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  • English onomatopoeias