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Sissy vs Sissify - What's the difference?

sissy | sissify |

As verbs the difference between sissy and sissify

is that sissy is to urinate while sissify is to make sissy; to emasculate.

As a noun sissy

is an effeminate boy or man.

As an adjective sissy

is effeminate.

As a proper noun Sissy

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

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

    sissify

    English

    Verb

  • To make sissy; to emasculate.
  • * 1929 , Society for the Advancement of Education, School & society, Volume 29
    • ...there does seem, from this study, basis for a not uncommon charge that American schools tend to baby and sissify the boys.
  • * 1994 , J. M. Bernstein, The Frankfurt School: critical assessments, Volume 6
    • The trick was to find means of positioning a male consumer which did not feminize, emasculate or sissify him.

    Related terms

    * sissification