Unmanly vs Sissy - What's the difference?
unmanly | sissy | Related terms |
(of a person) Showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character.
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Of or pertaining to something not human.
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*:: And then, it may be, of his wish to roam
*:: Repented he, but in his bosom slept
*:: The silent thought, nor from his lips did come
*:: One word of wail, whilst others sate and wept,
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(of a behaviour or action) Cowardly, base.
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*:: Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife,
*:: Unmanly murder, and unthrifty scath,
*:: Bitter despight, with rancours rusty knife,
*:: And fretting griefe the enemy of life;
*:: All these, and many evils moe haunt ire,
*:: The swelling Splene, and Frenzy raging rife,
*:: The shaking Palsey, and Saint Fraunces fire:
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(of a behaviour or action) Not acceptable of a man.
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(of a behaviour or action) Not becoming of a man.
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* 1899 November, , Vol. 99, No. 594,
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In a manner that is unmanly.
* 1878 , The Christian Monitor , vol. 17, page 298,
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* 1914 , Jeff C. Davis Riddle,
(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.
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* 2000 , (revised edition), Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-58176-7,
(pejorative) .
(childish, colloquial) Urination; urine.
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As adjectives the difference between unmanly and sissy
is that unmanly is showing characteristics that are not manly, such as being immature, effeminate or cowardly, which might be construed as an indicator of weakness or of baseness of character while sissy is effeminate.As an adverb unmanly
is in a manner that is unmanly.As a noun sissy is
an effeminate boy or man.As a verb sissy is
to urinate.As a proper noun Sissy is
{{given name|female|diminutive=Cecilia}}.unmanly
English
Adjective
- 'I do not know which is the worse,' he cried, 'the fraudulent old villain or the unmanly young cub. ...
- He'd be wearing white pants and playing lawn tennis presently if he continued to grow much softer and more unmanly .
- And to the reckless gales unmanly moaning kept.
- I had bought a toy in the street for my own amusement. It represented a woman, a young mother, flinging her little son over her head with one hand and catching him in the other ... The unmanly chuckle always came, I found, when the poor lady dropped her babe, ...
- Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;
- Such one was Wrath, the last of this ungodly tire.
- But when, instead of an impotent and unmanly struggle for existence, he found that his friend had forborne, with the customary and dignified submission of an Indian warrior, until an opportunity had offered to escape, and that he had then manifested the spirit and decision of the most gifted brave, his gratification became nearly too powerful to be concealed.
- When they've got nobody but themselves to think of it don't so much matter as I know of; but to keep on breaking the hearts of those as never did you anything but good, and wouldn't if they lived for a hundred years, is cowardly and unmanly any way you look at it.
- Such a man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and is not only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but is actually attracting to himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in, and acting out, indolent, deceptive, and unmanly thoughts.
- He did not know which was more painful to witness: Hempel's unmanly cringing, or the air of fatuous satisfaction that succeeded it.
- Mr. Coverley was quite brutal: he swore at her with unmanly rage, and seemed scarce able to refrain even from striking her.
- "Lor’, sir, you wouldn’t have ’em in short clothes, poor little dears?" And she said it in a tone that seemed to imply I had suggested some unmanly outrage.
- Jo wanted to lay her head down on that motherly bosom, and cry her grief and anger all away, but tears were an unmanly weakness, and she felt so deeply injured that she really couldn’t quite forgive yet.
- First, the more robust boys considered talking with girls an unmanly occupation; second, the greater part of the boys were afraid; third, they had no idea of what to say, because they esteemed the proper sentences should be supernaturally incisive and eloquent.
- Many voteless women regard a vote as unwomanly. Nobody says that most voteless men regarded a vote as unmanly'. Nobody says that any voteless men regarded it as ' unmanly .
Adverb
(en adverb)- He had acted unmanly , unworthy of a gentleman.
Contending forces : a romance illustrative of negro life north and south,
- "That means that we shan't quarrel if I agree to whatever you are going to propose. What is it you want to say?" he asked, becoming grave in his turn. "Is it that I have behaved unmanly in visiting your room in your absence? Why cavil about a little thing of that sort? I do this for you as I would for Dora."
The Indian history of the Modoc war, and the causes that led to it,
- A Yankee who had not "acclimated" well but had retained his native habit of "arguing" things, came to Riddle's one day, and after some talk about a stray horse, intimated that Mr. Riddle had behaved unmanly in the matter. Wi-ne-ma taking in the situation, pitched into Mr. Yank, and before he knew it, his head was bleeding profusely and a strong hand was grasping his throat. He fought back as best he could, but the poor little Yank was in the hands of an enraged Modoc woman, who was pelting him in the face, saying between her licks, "I'll learn you how you talk about my man."
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.