sissy:

Or: sissie :

1. A sister, especially a younger sister.

2. A mocking or insulting term of address for a man suspected of being homosexual , having homosexual tendencies, or having effeminate manners.

3. A timid or cowardly person.

4. Fearful; weak.

Quotes:

(1) Andy Devine and Buster Keaton in a promotional musical short called La Fiesta (1935):
-- Andy: ' Si, si, Señor .'
-- Buster: ' Don't call me sissy .'

(2) Sheila (Diane Baker) to David Stillwell (Gregory Peck) in Mirage (1965): ' I'm a girl . I'm supposed to be a sissy .'

(3) ' Half-a-sissy ' From the movie Easy Money (1983).

See Also: candy ass, cissy, closet case, closet gay, closet queen, closet queer, dry queen, hidden queen, nonconforming gender, sis, sissie, sissy, transgendered, transgressively gendered, undercover fag, wimp, wussy

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