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Cissy

23 replies

mickeylou · 07/06/2009 11:49

opinions on Cissy please? DS is Billy

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Deemented · 07/06/2009 11:54

No. Cissy Spacek. Really doesn't go with Billy.

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19fran76 · 07/06/2009 12:11

No

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Blackduck · 07/06/2009 12:18

you aren't serious are you?

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TrillianAstra · 07/06/2009 12:20

Cecilia?

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MrsMattie · 07/06/2009 13:12

No!

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poppysweetie · 07/06/2009 13:35

I dont really like it. How about Cecilia?

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Tinker · 07/06/2009 14:35

It's a shortening for Sarah. Well, Sissy is so presume Cissy also. I'm quite fond of it for family reasons

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NorbertDentressangle · 07/06/2009 14:40

No.

How about Cecily?

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belgo · 07/06/2009 14:41

Only as a nickname for Celia or Cecile or Cecelia. Even then I don't like it very much.

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magbags · 07/06/2009 15:24

It Scotland (maybe everywhere?) it means coward. Cecily is lovely though imo.

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cookielove · 07/06/2009 15:51

i did't think sarah had a shortening, and no i don't like it

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cheesesarnie · 07/06/2009 15:53

i like it.prefer sissy.although never heard it as shortening of sarah.

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cookielove · 07/06/2009 16:00

i really love sarah, though

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TeaOneSugar · 07/06/2009 16:08

Try shouting "Cissy, Billy tea's ready" up the stairs a few times, doesn't go I'm afraid, too much of a much of a mouthful - too many eee sounds.

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cissycharlton · 07/06/2009 16:13

I think it's lovely

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WinkyWinkola · 07/06/2009 16:25

Cissy? Isn't that another word for a wet blanket?

CeeCee or Cici is nicer imo.

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cheesesarnie · 07/06/2009 16:28

thats it ceecee!!!!

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Pingpong · 07/06/2009 20:41

My granny had a friend called Cissy. Rebecca is her real name. No idea where the nn comes from. She is 98.
I wouldn't use it as a real name

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Nancy66 · 07/06/2009 20:44

Ok as a nickname but not as a given name.

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Tommy · 07/06/2009 20:44

I had a great aunty Cissy - I think she was Cicely.

DS2 calls his snuggly blanket Cissy now so that's what I always think of!

I think Billy and Cissy would be a bit of a mouthful TBH and everyone would be a bit when you told them your daughter was called basically an insult.

Maybe as a nick name?

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hedgiemum · 08/06/2009 12:37

I have a Billy and a Cissy! (aka William and Celestine)

William is always Billy, and when Celeste (as most of us call her) was born, he pronounced it Cissy, and it has stuck. DH also calls her this most of the time. Our older daughter also has a name which is often shortened to end in an "ee" sound... kind of unplanned but these things just seem to stick in our family.

I've heard of a Cissy short for Cicely and a Sissy short for Isobel too.

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