sissyish

[sis-ee]

sis·sy

[sis-ee] noun, plural sis·sies, adjective
noun
1.
an effeminate boy or man.
2.
a timid or cowardly person.
3.
a little girl.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a sissy.

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Sissyish is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism in sense “sister”; 1885–90, Americanism for def. 1; sis + y2

sis·sy·ish, adjective
sis·si·ness, sis·sy·ness, noun
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sissyish

adjective
having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate
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