wordswarm

1 sissy -- rank: 1000

sissy definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] n 1: a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast] Merriam Webster's noun (plural sissies ... effeminate man or boy; also a timid or cowardly person • sissy adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. & adj. (also cissy) colloq. --n ... sissies) Some people, especially men, describe a boy as a sissy when they disapprove of him because he does not like ...

2 cissy -- rank: 517

... unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] Merriam Webster's British variant of sissy Oxford Reference Dictionary var. of SISSY. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see sissy

3 sissified -- rank: 446

... unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: circa 1903 of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a sissy Moby Thesaurus afraid, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chicken, chickenhearted, cobwebby ... panic-prone, panicky, papery, pasteboardy, pigeonhearted, prissy, puny, rabbity, shattery, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, unsubstantial ...

4 pantywaist -- rank: 446

... a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast] Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa ... garment consisting of short pants buttoned to a waist 2. sissy • pantywaist adjective Moby Thesaurus Lord Fauntleroy, Milquetoast, Percy, baby, big ... nance, nancy, nebbish, nonentity, old woman, pansy, pushover, sad sack, sissy, softling, softy, sop, weak sister, weakling, wishy-washy

5 prissy -- rank: 446

... s adjective (prissier; -est) Etymology: probably blend of prim and sissy Date: 1895 overly prim and precise ; finicky • prissily adverb • prissiness ... prudish. Derivatives: prissily adv. prissiness n. Etymology: perh. f. PRIM + SISSY Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (prissier, prissiest) If you say that ... muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish, precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft, squeamish, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, unmanly, womanish

6 Pansy -- rank: 352

... a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast] 3: offensive term for an openly ... nonentity, pantywaist, pathic, punk, pushover, queen, queer, sad sack, sapphist, sissy, softling, softy, sop, tribade, weak sister, weakling

7 Milksop -- rank: 352

... a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle ... pantywaist, perfect fool, poltroon, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, schmuck, sissy, softhead, softling, softy, sop, stupid ass, tomfool, weak sister, weakling ...

8 Effeminate -- rank: 352

... unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] Merriam Webster's I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ... womanish, papery, pasteboardy, perverted, prissy, puny, queer, sapphic, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, transvestite, tribadistic, unmanly, unsubstantial, weak ...

9 Milquetoast -- rank: 352

... a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive [syn: sissy, pantywaist, pansy, milksop, Milquetoast] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Caspar ... nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white ...

10 lily livered -- rank: 223

... overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, pigeonhearted, poltroonish, pusillanimous, rabbity, sissified, sissy, soft, spunkless, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak, weak-kneed, weakhearted ...

11 lightweight -- rank: 223

... sack, savate expert, scrub, second fiddle, secondary, shattery, shrimp, sissified, sissy, sleazy, slight, slip, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, snip ...

12 jellyfish -- rank: 223

... nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, scaredy-cat, shilly-shally, sissy, softling, softy, sop, waverer, weak sister, weakling, white feather, white ...

13 Jeering -- rank: 223

... jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn: derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting] n 1: showing your ...

14 invertebrate -- rank: 223

... pushover, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, sad sack, scaredy-cat, scavenger, sissy, softling, softy, sop, spineless, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, weak, weak ...

15 Intimidated -- rank: 223

... paralyzed, petrified, pigeonhearted, rabbity, scared stiff, scared to death, sissified, sissy, soft, stunned, stupefied, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden ...