Definition of "sissyish" []

• Having unsuitable feminine qualities (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Bella knew some little girls in the house, but in a ceremonious way; Tom had formed no friendships among the boys at school such as he had left in Boston; as nearly as he could explain, the New York fellows carried canes at an age when they would have had them broken for them by the other boys at Boston; and they were both sissyish and fast."
• "York fellows carried canes at an age when they would have had them broken for them by the other boys at Boston; and they were both sissyish and fast."
• "But at least two of the other portraits seem positively sissyish."