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sissy | femme |

As a proper noun sissy

is .

As a noun femme is

(archaic|rare) a woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.

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

    femme

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, rare) A woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.
  • * 1885 , Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
  • Then I turned to him and said, "O my lord, I have that to propose to thee wherein thou must not cross me; and this it is that, when we reach Baghdad, my native city, I offer thee my life as thy handmaiden in holy matrimony, and thou shalt be to me baron and I will be femme to thee."
  • (slang, LGBT) A feminine lesbian, especially one who is attracted to masculine (butch) lesbians.
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