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sissy

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1. sissy - Noun

2. sissy - Adjective

3. sissy - Verb

4. sissy - Adjective Satellite

5. Sissy - Proper noun

Meaning

a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive

having unsuitable feminine qualities

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I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy. Robert Crumb

What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating. Scott Hamilton

We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. Irwin Shaw

Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC. Warren Farrell

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek. Jordan Gavaris

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