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sissy

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sissy /ˈsɪsi/ (Brit. also cissy) informal

▶noun (pl. sissies) a person regarded as feeble or effeminate. ▶adjective (sissier, sissiest) feeble or effeminate.

– derivatives
sissified adjective,
sissiness noun,
sissyish adjective.

– origin C19 (in the sense ‘sister’): from sis + -y2.

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