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n. - An effeminate man or boy.

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  • Second, playground bullies who will punch any musical kid to pieces for being what used to be called 'cissy' is it still? dunno and tell them classical music isn't cool.
  • But in that Ralph Reed, or Lindsey Graham kind of way ... he is, well, a cissy.
  • Try telling a madrileño taxi driver that he sounds cissy, and see where it gets you!
  • Judging by tonight's fare, there's little time left for anything so cissy as writing jokes.
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