| 释义 |
Jessie colloq.|ˈdʒɛsɪ|
Also Jessy, and with lower-case initial.
[Female proper name.]
A cowardly or effeminate man; a male homosexual.
1923G. Blake Mince Collop Close i. 20 He was a big Jessie,{ddd}but she liked him. 1938[see go-round]. 1958K. Amis I like it Here ii. 31 Darling, you really don't have to convince me that you're not a jessie. 1958M. Dickens Man Overboard iv. 59 Don't listen to those timid old Jessies at Southampton. 1971G. Sims Deadhand ii. ii. 88 Duff had been scathing about ‘soft jessies who couldn't get their fat heads down’. 1973D. Lees Rape of Quiet Town xix. 153 The implication that J. Plummer Esquire was a soft jessie—because he had a rotten objection to getting himself killed. |