Sissy vs Tissy - What's the difference?
sissy | tissy |
(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) .
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(pejorative) .
(childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.
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(colloquial) A type of behavior, usually when a male acts feminine in a manner of frustration.
:Mark threw a huge tissy when he came in today and saw the mess that was made of his magazines.
:After the laughter that was directed at him after his first tissy'''-fit, Mark started to '''tissy for a whole new reason.
As a proper noun sissy
is .As a noun tissy is
(colloquial) a type of behavior, usually when a male acts feminine in a manner of frustration.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
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- 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.