Sissy

See also: sissy

English

Proper noun

Sissy

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Cecilia.
    • 1854, Charles Dickens, “Book I, Chapter II”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
      ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’
      ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey.
    • 2013, Lee Martin, Southern Psalms, page 70:
      “He'd give the store away if Sissy and I let him,” said Dreama.
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