sissyn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈsɪsi/, U.S.

/ˈsɪsi/

Forms:

α. 1700s– sissy, 1800s– sissee (rare), 1900s– sissie.

β. 1800s– cissy, 1900s– cissie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sis n., -y suffix⁶.

Etymology: < sis n. + -y suffix⁶.In use as adjective perhaps also influenced by -y suffix¹.

colloquial.

A. n.

1. One's sister; a sister. Often as a term of endearment.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun]

sistereOE

sis1596

tittiea1628

sissy1757

skin and blister1925

1757 D. Garrick Lilliput 14 Thou Genius of Mischief, and best of Brothers! what can I do to thank you for your Goodness to your poor Sissy?

1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. xxv. 201 The relative family names among them [sc. negroes] are..sissy, sister; buddy, brother; unco, uncle; anté, aunt.

1846 Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 22 Apr. 1/7 ‘Sissy Jane’ smoothed back my hair, and smiled at me.

1850 Trinidadian 23 Nov. 3 My own sister came over in the ship with me..when sissy and I came here we went together to the Estate. I left my sissy there.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xiii. 107 Don't be frightened, sissy, I never kiss girls.

1915 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. L. Couperus Later Life xviii. 155 ‘Louise,’ whispered Emilie. ‘My poor sissy!’

1995 D. Camp Lonewolf's Woman vi. 85 The boy belongs to me now, and I don't want him whining for his sissies.

2013 Jrnl.-News (Hamilton, Ohio) (Nexis) 8 Nov. She told him to do whatever he wanted to her, just leave my little sissy alone.

2. depreciative (originally U.S.). A boy or man whose behaviour, demeanour, or appearance is considered in some way to be effeminate or lacking in manliness, esp. one regarded as feeble, cowardly, timid, squeamish, or excessively averse to dirt. Occasionally also used of a girl or woman.Apparently earliest as a nickname.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man

badlingeOE

milksopc1390

cockneyc1405

malkina1425

molla1425

weakling1526

tenderling1541

softling1543

niceling1549

woman-man1567

cocknel1570

effeminate1583

androgyne1587

meacock1590

mammaday1593

hermaphrodite1594

midwife1596

nimfadoro1600

night-sneaker1611

mock-mana1625

nan1670

she-man1675

petit maître1711

old woman1717

master-miss1754

Miss Molly1754

molly1785

squaw1805

mollycoddle1823

Miss Nancy1824

mollycot1826

molly mop1829

poof1833

Margery?c1855

ladyboy1857

girl1862

Mary Ann1868

sissy1879

milk1881

pretty-boy1881

nancy1888

poofter1889

Nancy Dawson1890

softie1895

puff1902

pussy1904

Lizzie1905

nance1910

quean1910

maricon1921

pie-face1922

bitch1923

Jessie1923

lily1923

tapette1923

pansy1926

nancy boy1927

nelly1931

femme1932

ponce1932

queerie1933

palone1934

queenie1935

girlie-man1940

swish1941

puss1942

wonk1945

mother1947

candy-ass1953

twink1953

cream puff1958

pronk1959

swishy1959

limp wrist1960

pansy-ass1963

weeny1963

poofteroo1966

mo1968

shim1973

twinkie1977

woofter1977

cake boy1992

hermaphrodite-

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of unmanliness > one who is unmanly

milksopc1390

meacock1526

sissy1879

softie1895

Jessie1923

pantywaist1935

candy-ass1953

α.

1877 Connersville (Indiana) Examiner 13 Mar. Her [sc. Jane Brown's] young brother Abe..had the softest, sawney kind of look... I don't know who started the nickname, but everybody called him ‘Sissy Brown’.]

1879 Sunday Herald (Boston) 9 Mar. 8/3 He wore long curls, and the Concord boys plagued him in the usual rough way of boys. They called him ‘Sissy’ and ‘Yankee Doodle’.

1883 Times (Philadelphia) 22 July 3/3 I always thought they were a couple of sissies.

1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 27 Aug. 3/2 Look and walk too much like sissies to do much fightin'.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237 I want red blood. I don't want no sissies, see?

1947 C. Sergel We shook Family Tree ii. 45 Maybe it'll scare Ellie-May away—she's such a sissy.

1977 Time 21 Feb. 40/2 Smokers proved to be sissies when deprived of cigarettes.

2014 Australian (Nexis) 9 Jan. (Features section) 10 Abattoir work is not for sissies.

β. 1910 St. Louis Lumberman 15 Apr. 24/1 Such a cissy can't throw a stone to hurt much!1915 T. L. Golden Let. 30 May in Lett. from Front (Canadian Bank of Commerce) (1920) I. 19 Ready to look down upon the Britisher as a good-for-nothing lady-like cissy.1978 J. Galway Autobiogr. (1979) v. 54 Nobody admitted they did for fear of being thought a cissy.2002 Best of British Nov. 56/3 Rockets were the king of the fireworks... Girls and cissies favoured Catherine wheels.

B. adj.

depreciative (originally U.S.). Esp. of a boy or man: that is a sissy (sense A. 2); (of behaviour, demeanour, or appearance) characteristic of such a person; considered to be effeminate or lacking in manliness, esp. in being cowardly, squeamish, etc. Cf. sissyish adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] > unmanly or effeminate

manlessa1529

unmanly1534

meacock1587

unmanful1729

sissy1879

unvirile1884

sissyish1889

candy-ass1953

candy-assed1953

nelly1960

α.

1879 N.Y. Herald 14 Feb. 6/5 Oh, I didn't think much of him! he was a little too sissy, and he parted his hair sissy!

1882 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 3 Nov. 7/3 The offender was a pretty, sissy young fellow.

1891 Harper's Mag. Aug. 485/2 He approached and sat near me, deep in conversation with a young gentleman with sissy whiskers.

1921 Etude July 432/1 Some boy companions said it was very ‘sissy’ to study music.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 241 Thassa sissy sort of a name, but it'll do.

1959 Spectator 25 Sept. 408/2 All the kudos goes to the campaign-scarred, ink-stained veteran: none to the new bug in his sissy clean blazer.

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xi. 260 No cutter ever wore gloves. They slowed a man down... Besides, gloves were sissy.

2005 Sunday Times of India 6 Feb. 12/1 There are others who think using deodorants is namby-pamby, a sissy thing to do.

β. 1916 R. W. Service Rhymes Red Cross Man 128 We're only beginning to find ourselves; we're wonders of brawn and thew; But when we go back to our Cissy jobs, Oh! what are we going to do?1930 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 228 It takes more than a cissy Englishman who couldn't find the hole in a doughnut to break trail across ‘the Barrens’.1963 Times 16 Feb. 12/4 The reason why some workers did not use protective equipment and clothing, which would have prevented many accidents, was that they regarded such things as ‘cissy’.1986 Music Teacher May 21/1 Music was regarded generally as a ‘cissy’ subject.2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Jan. (Sport section) 3 Most of their players wore short sleeves, despite the cold and the continual rain: no cissy, modern footballers in the South Yorkshire side.

Compounds

C1. U.S. depreciative. Combined with words denoting items of clothing or footwear to form nouns denoting a person who is considered a sissy (see sense A. 2), as sissy boots, sissy pants, etc. Often as a form of address.

ΚΠ

1918 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Dec. 13/2 Don't let mollycoddles and sissy boots run this country.

1936 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call 28 Sept. 4/7 If Christopher Columbus had been such a sissy britches we'd all probably be still living in Europe today.

1938 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 20 Feb. (Comic section) (cartoon caption) When you gonna start, sissy pants? Now run on home to your mama before you get me mad!

1988 W. W. Johnstone Revenge of Mountain Man v. 46 What's your name, sissy-britches?

2017 Oroville (Calif.) Mercury Reg. (Nexis) 28 July He just hid behind his phone and tweeted. What a yellow-belly sissy pants.

C2. attributive. U.S. Designating various women's garments made in a style regarded as particularly feminine, typically through the use of broad frills and ruffles; esp. as sissy blouse, sissy shirt. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

1937 Washington Post 15 Feb. 13/8 The girls finish up wide-legged, [in] precisely creased slacks with a ‘sissy’ shirt.

1941 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. Star-News 6 Aug. 3 (advt.) Sissy dresses boys will like, with muffler and sashes and pouchy pockets!

1959 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. iii. 10/2 Wider skirts much in evidence. Strong action on girls' wool suits in flannels, checks and plaids, sub-teens sissy shirtwaist dresses.

1990 N. Mairs Carnal Acts 87 Her milieu was the front fender of a white Corvette convertible,..dressed in black flats, a sissy blouse, and the letter sweater of the Corvette owner.

C3.

sissy bar n. (a) (on a stock car, rally car, etc.) any bar added to the frame of the car to impart rigidity or for safety; (b) a metal loop rising from behind the seat of a bicycle or motorcycle, against which a rider or passenger may lean for support, or to which equipment may be attached.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > parts of

carrier1911

pillion1911

stand1918

drivetrain1938

kick-stand1947

twist grip1954

sissy bar1959

peg1965

hardtail1971

tank bag1974

top box1976

cockpit1993

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > other parts of cycles

saddle1819

saddle pin1836

rest1855

pillion1878

Arab spring1880

carrier1885

coaster1895

bicycle basket1896

pacemaker1896

steering lock1897

headset1898

flapper-seat1916

stand1918

kick-stand1947

sissy bar1959

stabilizers1960

1959 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 7 July 8/1 Roll bars are mounted on each car with ‘sissy’ bars on each side to keep the wheels from locking.

1962 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 28 Nov. 45/7 (advt.) Motorcycle, 1960 Pirelli good motor, new seat & chrome, sissy bar, $250.

1974 R. B. Parker God save Child vi. 49 Another motorcycle... A big one,..small front wheel, sissy bar behind.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 3 Aug. 40/1 Made with a wedge-style frame and chrome sissy bar and fenders, this two-wheeler also has a lighter aluminum-alloy frame than your old honker from the '70s.

2016 savageonwheels.com 6 Mar. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 11 Mar. 2016) On the passenger's side, a grab bar that some called a sissy bar, was added.

sissy boy n. a boy who is a sissy (sense A. 2).

ΚΠ

1887 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 21 Aug. (advt.) Wanted—boy to learn the carriage blacksmithing; no sissy boy or tenderfoot need apply.

1934 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 7 391 Then at the door, he turned, ‘If there's anything I cannot stand,’ he said, ‘it's a sissy boy.’

2000 Spectator 14 Oct. 18/1 There are times..when I feel a bit of a sissy boy writing about US politics.

Derivatives

ˌsissifiˈcation n. the action or fact of making someone or something sissyish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun]

effeminateness1558

effeminacy1571

gingerliness1583

mollitude1599

mollities1604

invirility1628

femality?1643

womanlishness1648

feminity1669

ladyness1671

Miss Mollyism1834

femininity1855

Miss Nancyism1860

sissiness1892

camp1909

sissification1910

camping1922

lavender1929

1910 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 74/1 The gradual shedding of his sissyfication under the contact of ruder and stronger natures.

1915 Outlook 22 Dec. 947/1 A Southern Democrat who in a public speech protested against the ‘sissification’ of America.

2016 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 27 Nov. a36 I am appalled at the modern sissification of discourse, the fragile-flower atmosphere, the coddling of sensibilities.

ˈsissified adj. sissyish; that has been made into or made to resemble a sissy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective]

womanly?c1225

ferbleta1300

effeminatea1393

nicea1393

softc1450

manlessa1529

unmanly1534

cockney1573

effeminated1580

unmanlikea1586

milky1602

enervate1603

womanizing1615

emasculate1622

womanized1624

softly1643

womanlish1647

unmasculine1649

emollid1656

ladylike1656

enervated1660

emasculated1701

petticoated1708

tea-faced1728

effeminized1789

invirile1870

epicene1881

sissyish1889

sissified1898

devirilized1901

cockless1902

camp1909

pansy1929

campy1932

queenly1933

poncy1937

pansyish1941

swishy1941

moffie1954

poofy1956

femme1963

poofed-up1964

minty1965

ponced-up1970

lavender1979

1898 London Story Paper 4 June 8/1 Oh, he's a wretched ‘sissified’ looking thing.

1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 78 To be seen with girls was not so ‘sissified’ in his mind as it used to be.

1920 N. A. Hawkins Certain Success (ed. 3) iv. 151 Act like a he-man. Never appear ‘sissyfied’ in even the slightest degree.

1973 Guardian 1 June 10/5 The much-publicised Warhol Factory mystique..thinly veils a highly reactionary, bigoted and sissified neo-Nazi boutique.

2013 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 8 Sept. (Sports section) c2 Football fans who believe their precious game has been made ‘sissified’ by rules intended to decrease injuries.

ˈsissify v. transitive to make sissyish.

ΚΠ

1908 Bedford (Indiana) Daily Mail 19 Oct. Boys should not be taught by women because it ‘sissifies’ them.

2003 A. Franken Lies xxxviii. 324 By making it okay for politicians to cry, Lowry said that we Democrats had ‘sissified’ politics.

ˈsissiness n. the state or fact of being sissyish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun]

effeminateness1558

effeminacy1571

gingerliness1583

mollitude1599

mollities1604

invirility1628

femality?1643

womanlishness1648

feminity1669

ladyness1671

Miss Mollyism1834

femininity1855

Miss Nancyism1860

sissiness1892

camp1909

sissification1910

camping1922

lavender1929

1892 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 23 Oct. 20/4 Sissiness in the now overgrown Fauntleroys was not liked at all.

1926 Harper's Mag. Feb. 350/2 In spite of his funny sissiness there was not a dog in town that did not love him.

2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 19 Mar. 17 It [sc. cricket] carries overtones of sissiness in certain parts of the west of Scotland.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sissy
释义	sissyn.adj. Brit. /ˈsɪsi/, U.S. /ˈsɪsi/ Forms: α. 1700s– sissy, 1800s– sissee (rare), 1900s– sissie. β. 1800s– cissy, 1900s– cissie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sis n., -y suffix⁶. Etymology: < sis n. + -y suffix⁶.In use as adjective perhaps also influenced by -y suffix¹. colloquial. A. n. 1. One's sister; a sister. Often as a term of endearment. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > sibling > sister > [noun] sistereOE sis1596 tittiea1628 sissy1757 skin and blister1925 1757 D. Garrick Lilliput 14 Thou Genius of Mischief, and best of Brothers! what can I do to thank you for your Goodness to your poor Sissy? 1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. xxv. 201 The relative family names among them [sc. negroes] are..sissy, sister; buddy, brother; unco, uncle; anté, aunt. 1846 Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia) 22 Apr. 1/7 ‘Sissy Jane’ smoothed back my hair, and smiled at me. 1850 Trinidadian 23 Nov. 3 My own sister came over in the ship with me..when sissy and I came here we went together to the Estate. I left my sissy there. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xiii. 107 Don't be frightened, sissy, I never kiss girls. 1915 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. L. Couperus Later Life xviii. 155 ‘Louise,’ whispered Emilie. ‘My poor sissy!’ 1995 D. Camp Lonewolf's Woman vi. 85 The boy belongs to me now, and I don't want him whining for his sissies. 2013 Jrnl.-News (Hamilton, Ohio) (Nexis) 8 Nov. She told him to do whatever he wanted to her, just leave my little sissy alone. 2. depreciative (originally U.S.). A boy or man whose behaviour, demeanour, or appearance is considered in some way to be effeminate or lacking in manliness, esp. one regarded as feeble, cowardly, timid, squeamish, or excessively averse to dirt. Occasionally also used of a girl or woman.Apparently earliest as a nickname. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man badlingeOE milksopc1390 cockneyc1405 malkina1425 molla1425 weakling1526 tenderling1541 softling1543 niceling1549 woman-man1567 cocknel1570 effeminate1583 androgyne1587 meacock1590 mammaday1593 hermaphrodite1594 midwife1596 nimfadoro1600 night-sneaker1611 mock-mana1625 nan1670 she-man1675 petit maître1711 old woman1717 master-miss1754 Miss Molly1754 molly1785 squaw1805 mollycoddle1823 Miss Nancy1824 mollycot1826 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 ladyboy1857 girl1862 Mary Ann1868 sissy1879 milk1881 pretty-boy1881 nancy1888 poofter1889 Nancy Dawson1890 softie1895 puff1902 pussy1904 Lizzie1905 nance1910 quean1910 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 lily1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 queerie1933 palone1934 queenie1935 girlie-man1940 swish1941 puss1942 wonk1945 mother1947 candy-ass1953 twink1953 cream puff1958 pronk1959 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 pansy-ass1963 weeny1963 poofteroo1966 mo1968 shim1973 twinkie1977 woofter1977 cake boy1992 hermaphrodite- the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > quality of unmanliness > one who is unmanly milksopc1390 meacock1526 sissy1879 softie1895 Jessie1923 pantywaist1935 candy-ass1953 α. 1877 Connersville (Indiana) Examiner 13 Mar. Her [sc. Jane Brown's] young brother Abe..had the softest, sawney kind of look... I don't know who started the nickname, but everybody called him ‘Sissy Brown’.] 1879 Sunday Herald (Boston) 9 Mar. 8/3 He wore long curls, and the Concord boys plagued him in the usual rough way of boys. They called him ‘Sissy’ and ‘Yankee Doodle’. 1883 Times (Philadelphia) 22 July 3/3 I always thought they were a couple of sissies. 1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 27 Aug. 3/2 Look and walk too much like sissies to do much fightin'. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 237 I want red blood. I don't want no sissies, see? 1947 C. Sergel We shook Family Tree ii. 45 Maybe it'll scare Ellie-May away—she's such a sissy. 1977 Time 21 Feb. 40/2 Smokers proved to be sissies when deprived of cigarettes. 2014 Australian (Nexis) 9 Jan. (Features section) 10 Abattoir work is not for sissies. β. 1910 St. Louis Lumberman 15 Apr. 24/1 Such a cissy can't throw a stone to hurt much!1915 T. L. Golden Let. 30 May in Lett. from Front (Canadian Bank of Commerce) (1920) I. 19 Ready to look down upon the Britisher as a good-for-nothing lady-like cissy.1978 J. Galway Autobiogr. (1979) v. 54 Nobody admitted they did for fear of being thought a cissy.2002 Best of British Nov. 56/3 Rockets were the king of the fireworks... Girls and cissies favoured Catherine wheels. B. adj. depreciative (originally U.S.). Esp. of a boy or man: that is a sissy (sense A. 2); (of behaviour, demeanour, or appearance) characteristic of such a person; considered to be effeminate or lacking in manliness, esp. in being cowardly, squeamish, etc. Cf. sissyish adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] > unmanly or effeminate manlessa1529 unmanly1534 meacock1587 unmanful1729 sissy1879 unvirile1884 sissyish1889 candy-ass1953 candy-assed1953 nelly1960 α. 1879 N.Y. Herald 14 Feb. 6/5 Oh, I didn't think much of him! he was a little too sissy, and he parted his hair sissy! 1882 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 3 Nov. 7/3 The offender was a pretty, sissy young fellow. 1891 Harper's Mag. Aug. 485/2 He approached and sat near me, deep in conversation with a young gentleman with sissy whiskers. 1921 Etude July 432/1 Some boy companions said it was very ‘sissy’ to study music. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvii. 241 Thassa sissy sort of a name, but it'll do. 1959 Spectator 25 Sept. 408/2 All the kudos goes to the campaign-scarred, ink-stained veteran: none to the new bug in his sissy clean blazer. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xi. 260 No cutter ever wore gloves. They slowed a man down... Besides, gloves were sissy. 2005 Sunday Times of India 6 Feb. 12/1 There are others who think using deodorants is namby-pamby, a sissy thing to do. β. 1916 R. W. Service Rhymes Red Cross Man 128 We're only beginning to find ourselves; we're wonders of brawn and thew; But when we go back to our Cissy jobs, Oh! what are we going to do?1930 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 228 It takes more than a cissy Englishman who couldn't find the hole in a doughnut to break trail across ‘the Barrens’.1963 Times 16 Feb. 12/4 The reason why some workers did not use protective equipment and clothing, which would have prevented many accidents, was that they regarded such things as ‘cissy’.1986 Music Teacher May 21/1 Music was regarded generally as a ‘cissy’ subject.2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 Jan. (Sport section) 3 Most of their players wore short sleeves, despite the cold and the continual rain: no cissy, modern footballers in the South Yorkshire side. Compounds C1. U.S. depreciative. Combined with words denoting items of clothing or footwear to form nouns denoting a person who is considered a sissy (see sense A. 2), as sissy boots, sissy pants, etc. Often as a form of address. ΚΠ 1918 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Dec. 13/2 Don't let mollycoddles and sissy boots run this country. 1936 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call 28 Sept. 4/7 If Christopher Columbus had been such a sissy britches we'd all probably be still living in Europe today. 1938 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 20 Feb. (Comic section) (cartoon caption) When you gonna start, sissy pants? Now run on home to your mama before you get me mad! 1988 W. W. Johnstone Revenge of Mountain Man v. 46 What's your name, sissy-britches? 2017 Oroville (Calif.) Mercury Reg. (Nexis) 28 July He just hid behind his phone and tweeted. What a yellow-belly sissy pants. C2. attributive. U.S. Designating various women's garments made in a style regarded as particularly feminine, typically through the use of broad frills and ruffles; esp. as sissy blouse, sissy shirt. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1937 Washington Post 15 Feb. 13/8 The girls finish up wide-legged, [in] precisely creased slacks with a ‘sissy’ shirt. 1941 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. Star-News 6 Aug. 3 (advt.) Sissy dresses boys will like, with muffler and sashes and pouchy pockets! 1959 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. iii. 10/2 Wider skirts much in evidence. Strong action on girls' wool suits in flannels, checks and plaids, sub-teens sissy shirtwaist dresses. 1990 N. Mairs Carnal Acts 87 Her milieu was the front fender of a white Corvette convertible,..dressed in black flats, a sissy blouse, and the letter sweater of the Corvette owner. C3. sissy bar n. (a) (on a stock car, rally car, etc.) any bar added to the frame of the car to impart rigidity or for safety; (b) a metal loop rising from behind the seat of a bicycle or motorcycle, against which a rider or passenger may lean for support, or to which equipment may be attached. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > parts of carrier1911 pillion1911 stand1918 drivetrain1938 kick-stand1947 twist grip1954 sissy bar1959 peg1965 hardtail1971 tank bag1974 top box1976 cockpit1993 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > other parts of cycles saddle1819 saddle pin1836 rest1855 pillion1878 Arab spring1880 carrier1885 coaster1895 bicycle basket1896 pacemaker1896 steering lock1897 headset1898 flapper-seat1916 stand1918 kick-stand1947 sissy bar1959 stabilizers1960 1959 Fergus Falls (Minnesota) Daily Jrnl. 7 July 8/1 Roll bars are mounted on each car with ‘sissy’ bars on each side to keep the wheels from locking. 1962 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 28 Nov. 45/7 (advt.) Motorcycle, 1960 Pirelli good motor, new seat & chrome, sissy bar, $250. 1974 R. B. Parker God save Child vi. 49 Another motorcycle... A big one,..small front wheel, sissy bar behind. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 3 Aug. 40/1 Made with a wedge-style frame and chrome sissy bar and fenders, this two-wheeler also has a lighter aluminum-alloy frame than your old honker from the '70s. 2016 savageonwheels.com 6 Mar. (Internet Archive Wayback Machine 11 Mar. 2016) On the passenger's side, a grab bar that some called a sissy bar, was added. sissy boy n. a boy who is a sissy (sense A. 2). ΚΠ 1887 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 21 Aug. (advt.) Wanted—boy to learn the carriage blacksmithing; no sissy boy or tenderfoot need apply. 1934 Jrnl. Educ. Sociol. 7 391 Then at the door, he turned, ‘If there's anything I cannot stand,’ he said, ‘it's a sissy boy.’ 2000 Spectator 14 Oct. 18/1 There are times..when I feel a bit of a sissy boy writing about US politics. Derivatives ˌsissifiˈcation n. the action or fact of making someone or something sissyish. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun] effeminateness1558 effeminacy1571 gingerliness1583 mollitude1599 mollities1604 invirility1628 femality?1643 womanlishness1648 feminity1669 ladyness1671 Miss Mollyism1834 femininity1855 Miss Nancyism1860 sissiness1892 camp1909 sissification1910 camping1922 lavender1929 1910 Everybody's Mag. Jan. 74/1 The gradual shedding of his sissyfication under the contact of ruder and stronger natures. 1915 Outlook 22 Dec. 947/1 A Southern Democrat who in a public speech protested against the ‘sissification’ of America. 2016 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 27 Nov. a36 I am appalled at the modern sissification of discourse, the fragile-flower atmosphere, the coddling of sensibilities. ˈsissified adj. sissyish; that has been made into or made to resemble a sissy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [adjective] womanly?c1225 ferbleta1300 effeminatea1393 nicea1393 softc1450 manlessa1529 unmanly1534 cockney1573 effeminated1580 unmanlikea1586 milky1602 enervate1603 womanizing1615 emasculate1622 womanized1624 softly1643 womanlish1647 unmasculine1649 emollid1656 ladylike1656 enervated1660 emasculated1701 petticoated1708 tea-faced1728 effeminized1789 invirile1870 epicene1881 sissyish1889 sissified1898 devirilized1901 cockless1902 camp1909 pansy1929 campy1932 queenly1933 poncy1937 pansyish1941 swishy1941 moffie1954 poofy1956 femme1963 poofed-up1964 minty1965 ponced-up1970 lavender1979 1898 London Story Paper 4 June 8/1 Oh, he's a wretched ‘sissified’ looking thing. 1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide iv. 78 To be seen with girls was not so ‘sissified’ in his mind as it used to be. 1920 N. A. Hawkins Certain Success (ed. 3) iv. 151 Act like a he-man. Never appear ‘sissyfied’ in even the slightest degree. 1973 Guardian 1 June 10/5 The much-publicised Warhol Factory mystique..thinly veils a highly reactionary, bigoted and sissified neo-Nazi boutique. 2013 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 8 Sept. (Sports section) c2 Football fans who believe their precious game has been made ‘sissified’ by rules intended to decrease injuries. ˈsissify v. transitive to make sissyish. ΚΠ 1908 Bedford (Indiana) Daily Mail 19 Oct. Boys should not be taught by women because it ‘sissifies’ them. 2003 A. Franken Lies xxxviii. 324 By making it okay for politicians to cry, Lowry said that we Democrats had ‘sissified’ politics. ˈsissiness n. the state or fact of being sissyish. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun] effeminateness1558 effeminacy1571 gingerliness1583 mollitude1599 mollities1604 invirility1628 femality?1643 womanlishness1648 feminity1669 ladyness1671 Miss Mollyism1834 femininity1855 Miss Nancyism1860 sissiness1892 camp1909 sissification1910 camping1922 lavender1929 1892 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 23 Oct. 20/4 Sissiness in the now overgrown Fauntleroys was not liked at all. 1926 Harper's Mag. Feb. 350/2 In spite of his funny sissiness there was not a dog in town that did not love him. 2007 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 19 Mar. 17 It [sc. cricket] carries overtones of sissiness in certain parts of the west of Scotland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1757
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