jessie

See also: Jessie

English

Etymology

From Jessie as a diminutive of Jane, Jean, etc., here used in their extended sense of any young working-class girl.

Noun

jessie (plural jessies)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Synonym of sissy: a cowardly, effeminate, or homosexual man, a girly man.
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