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Sissy vs Bobbie - What's the difference?

sissy | bobbie |

As proper nouns the difference between sissy and bobbie

is that sissy is while bobbie is a diminutive of the male given name robert.

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.
  • *
    • English onomatopoeias

    bobbie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Bobby * Bobbi

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
  • A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

    • Quotations

    * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book Two, Chapter 7, *: It was many years before the house on Maple Street was forgotten as "The Quimby Place" and called by its now correct name of "The Carter House", and it was many years before Mrs. Carter succeeded in making Peyton Place call her "Roberta" instead of the frivolous and, to her, harlotish-sounding name of "Bobbie ". English diminutives of male given names English diminutives of female given names