Sissy vs Femme - What's the difference?
sissy | femme |
(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.
(pejorative) .
* 2000 , (revised edition), Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-58176-7,
(pejorative) .
(childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.
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(archaic, rare) A woman, a wife, particularly in heraldry.
* 1885 , Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
(slang, LGBT) A feminine lesbian, especially one who is attracted to masculine (butch) lesbians.
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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 ofNoun
(sissies)Synonyms
* (timid or cowardly person) mama's boy, pansy, nancyboy * (effeminate boy) janegirlDerived terms
* prissy * sissified * sissy bar (a passenger backrest for a motorcycle or bicycle) * sissyphobia * sissy squat (a weightlifting exercise emphasizing knee extension)Adjective
(er)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.
Etymology 2
Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to (etyl) . Compare piss; wee-wee.Noun
(-)femme
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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."