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Sissy   /sˈɪsi/   Listen
Sissy

noun
1.
A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive.  Synonyms: milksop, Milquetoast, pansy, pantywaist.






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"Sissy" Quotes from Famous Books



... considered myself hardboiled, and acted the part with everybody, including my wife. I scoffed at religion as unworthy of a real man and a mark of the sissy and weakling." Before going over the top for the first time he tried to pray, but had ...
— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

... one single day, anyway, and see if I ain't right. Solomon himself—and he was the greatest masher in the Bible—even he couldn't win a woman by letting her have her own way. A woman thinks a man is a sissy that gives in to her every whim. You just take Carrie Wade to meeting like any other free-born American citizen has a right to do, and Julia Hardcastle will set up and take notice, and she'll think a sight more of you—that is, if you don't knuckle under and beg ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben



Words linked to "Sissy" :   sissiness, coward, unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly



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