1) A male or female who complains alot
2) Something that is not going your way
3) NO!
1) "Willie, Why are you being so Hissy Kitty?"
2) "I got beat on NCAA, it was so Hissy Kitty."
3) Justin: "Do you wanna go do it?"
Buffy: Hissy Kitty Justin, Hissy Kitty"
A sudden but violent outburst of a person shouting, screaming recriminations and (possibly) wailing, generally short-lived but shocking.
"Hissy fit" used to describe an adult tantrum but now has become an equal opportunity description, young or old, male or female. What they all have in common is no matter how severe the (alleged) offense, there is always some wounded pride involved, and usually an audience of bystanders along with the culprit who allegedly triggered the hissy.
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-- "When I told Sarah she couldn't have the doll, she broke down and pitched a major hissy fit. Right there in the toy department at Target!"
--"So when Joe got fired, all he did was throw a hissy fit out in the hall? Terrible. REAL men used to slug each other."
--"She freaked! She had a hissy! She thinks you're the cat's meow." 'Farmer Ted' (Anthony Michael Hall) in movie SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984), describing the Molly Ringwald character's sudden infatuation with a boy two years her senior.
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hissy-fit: Noun, singular and plural possible.
An hysterical rant or tantrum, particularly one completely at odds with the gravity of the situation being protested. Often involves stamping of feet, whining, biting, clawing, and loud, obnoxious, screaming tears. One may "have" or "pull" a hissy-fit.
Children under the age of four tend to collapse into hissy-fits when confronted with adversity, but hissy-fits are by no means limited to a certain age group or gender.
The spoiled child had a hissy-fit when he couldn't take the kangaroo home.
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Babies and mothers were known to have hissy-fits.
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The word boo hissy is when you shout in anger disagreeing with someone said in a deep mans voice.
Mother I dont want to go to the shops . . . BOO-HISSY
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to be pissy and hissy, or stupid
Woh. Getting kind of hissy-pissy there
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To get all upset about something, often involving feeling someone else's choice of something is tacky.
Kevin got all hissy pissy when I bought a shirt at Wieboldt's Department Store.