Crossword clues for sissy
sissy
- Cowardly one
- He-man's antithesis
- "Carrie" star Spacek
- "Carrie" portrayer
- Spacek of Hollywood
- Spacek of "Crimes of the Heart"
- Spacek of 'Carrie'
- She won an Oscar as Loretta
- Oscar winner as Loretta
- No tough guy
- No manly man
- Loretta's portrayer in film
- Effeminate person
- Bully's victim
- 1980 Oscar-winner Spacek
- "Badlands" star Spacek
- Spacek who was Carrie
- Spacek of acting
- Spacek of "The River"
- Spacek of "In the Bedroom"
- Spacek of "Bloodline"
- Spacek of "Affliction"
- Spacek of 'The River'
- Spacek of ''Crimes of the Heart''
- Spacek in flicks
- Spacek from Tex
- She won an Oscar for her 1980 portrayal of Loretta
- She played Loretta in "Coal Miner's Daughter"
- She played Carrie and Loretta
- Mel's co-star in "The River"
- Martin's "Badlands" co-star
- Loretta's portrayer in "Coal Miner's Daughter"
- Loretta portrayer in "Coal Miner's Daughter"
- Loretta Lynn portrayer Spacek
- Lord Fauntleroy
- Grade-school insult
- Daredevil's opposite
- Carrie's portrayer in "Carrie"
- Carrie's portrayer
- Boyish epithet
- 1981 Oscar winner as Loretta
- 1980 Oscar winner who portrayed Loretta
- ''Carrie'' portrayer
- ___ bar (motorcycle attachment)
- ___ bar (biker's backrest)
- Wimp
- Hardly a he-man
- No bruiser
- Hardly the macho type
- Cream puff
- Girlie man
- Wuss
- Scaredy-cat, maybe
- Bruiser's antithesis
- Second part
- Pantywaist
- Hardly macho
- Weenie
- Playground taunt
- Girlish boy
- Fearful sort
- He-man's opposite
- Macho he's not
- Namby-pamby sort
- Unlikely bruiser
- Spacek of "Carrie"
- Actress Spacek
- A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
- Chicken
- Milksop
- Not a manly man
- Bully's prey
- Mollycoddled lad
- Timid soul
- Timorous person
- Timid one
- Spacek from Texas
- Spacek from Tex.
- One son wearing pair of smalls close to lady, getting wet
- Weakling, say, losing heart, is initially strong inside
- Spineless one
- Mama's boy
- Sibling nickname
- Spacek of the screen
- Cowardly sort
- Oscar winner Spacek
- Carrie portrayer
- Spacek of "Coal Miner's Daughter"
- She played Carrie
- Ms. Spacek
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846, "sister," extended form of sis (q.v.). Meaning "effeminate man" is recorded from 1887; the adjective in this sense is from 1891. Related: Sissiness. Sissy bar is recorded from 1969.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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1 (context pejorative English) effeminate#English. 2 (context pejorative English) cowardly#English. n. 1 (context pejorative colloquial English) An effeminate boy or man. 2 (context pejorative colloquial English) A timid, unassertive or cowardly person. 3 (context BDSM English) A male crossdresser who adopts feminine behaviours. 4 (context colloquial English) sister. Etymology 2
n. (context childish colloquial English) urination; urine. v
(context childish colloquial English) To urinate.
WordNet
adj. having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish]
n. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast]
Wikipedia
Sissy (derived from sister; also sissy baby, sissy boy, sissy man, sissy pants, etc.) is a pejorative term for a boy or man who does not conform to "standard male" gender stereotypes. Generally, sissy implies a lack of courage, strength, athleticism, coordination, testosterone, male libido, and stoic calm, all of which have traditionally been associated with masculinity and considered important to the male role in Western society. A man might also be considered a sissy for being interested in traditionally feminine hobbies or employment (e.g., being fond of fashion), displaying effeminate behavior (e.g. using hair products or displaying limp wrists), being unathletic, or being homosexual.
Sissy is, approximately, the male converse of tomboy (a girl with masculine traits or interests), but carries more strongly negative connotations. Research published in 2015 suggests that the terms are asymmetrical in their power to stigmatize: sissy is almost always pejorative and conveys greater severity, while tomboy rarely causes as much concern but also elicits pressure to conform to normative gender roles. Applied to an individual, these terms become a form of social control, enforcing normative gender roles and often drawing on the unfounded link of gender nonconformity with homosexuality.
Sissy is a term for sister, girl, or person considered excessively effeminate.
Sissy also may refer to:
- Sissy (transgender), a person who adopts hyper-feminine behaviors
- Sissy, Aisne, a commune in France
Usage examples of "sissy".
Her heart ached for Sissy, who would now rock her fatherless child alone, with only the rhythm of the swamp as company.
Every beginning, it is assumed, must have a neon twinkle of danger about it, and so grandmothers, sissies, lepidopterists and others are warned that the nomenclature that follows is often indecipherable.
Had on a sissy pink shirt instead of the green one they told us about up in Loma Blanca.
Sissy had long, smooth dark hair, huge breasts, and a cute puppyish face.
The argument from animal-rights sissies is that cockfighting is cruel, even sadistic.
He was wearing these green tights with the boots built right into them, and this orangy shirt with lace sissy ruffles at the wrists and collar, and some kind of silvery brocade vest, real tight.
Her hair under the sissy hat was sticking out every whichaway, her eyes were wide with fear, her limbs a-tremble.
Old Bill Cody had started to grow his hair shoulder-length and wear fringed white buckskins like some of those sissy boys who stayed in camp with the women.
Every beginning, it is assumed, must have a neon twinkle of danger about it, and so grandmothers, sissies, lepidopterists and others are warned that the nomenclature that follows is often indecipherable.
All the skinnydipping I did in my middle teens made me look back on that time with Karl and Jim and Sissy Madden and laugh at my own stupid shyness.
Sissy is too shy to reply, but Bitzer, an eager student, is ready with the proper answer: "Quadruped.
There had been a time when Brud's pleasant inquiry about Wade's family would have brought about a query about Alice and Sissy.
Find a nickel carfare for him and tell him, Evy, because she lives closer than Sissy.
The house smelled of warmth, good food, sweet powder and stronger candy-like smell that came from a hard chalkish disc that Sissy wore in an imitation-silver filigree heart on a chain around her neck.
Only Sissy, who discontinues her education because she is thought "unteachable," but who stays on in the Gradgrind household, understands Louisa's plight.