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

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

Derived forms: sissiest, sissies, sissier

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

Type of: chicken [informal], coward

Encyclopedia: Sissy, Aisne