1. A timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
   "Don't be such a cissy, it's just a tiny spider";
   - sissy [informal], pantywaist [N. Amer, informal], pansy [informal], milksop [informal], Milquetoast [N. Amer, informal]

1. Weal or having unsuitable feminine qualities
   "The actor's cissy portrayal of the character was criticized as stereotypical";
   - effeminate, emasculate, epicene, sissified [informal], sissyish [informal], sissy [informal], camp [informal], campy [informal]

Derived forms: cissies

See also: poncey [Brit, informal], poncy [Brit, informal], unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly

Type of: chicken [informal], coward

Encyclopedia: Cissy