sissy

adj

Etymology: From sis (“clipping of sister”) + -y.

1. Effeminate.

   “Frontiersmen were never afraid of poetry. It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.”

   “[…] 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.”

2. Cowardly.

name

1. A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.

   “‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.”

   ““He'd give the store away if Sissy and I let him,” said Dreama.”

noun

Etymology: Likely onomatopoetic, perhaps related to French pipi (“urine”). Compare piss; wee-wee.

1. Urination; urine.

   “She has to make. She has to make sissy.”

verb

Etymology: Clipping of sissygasm.

1. To sissygasm (reach orgasm solely by penetration of the anus).