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prissy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective prissy has 2 senses
- prissy(s = adj.all) priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
- prissy(s = adj.all) dainty, nice, overnice, squeamish - excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prissy, adj. (prissier, prissiest) prim, prudish.
Derivative
prissily adv. prissiness n.
Etymology
perh. f. PRIM + SISSY
THESAURUS
prissy
Victorian, chicken, effeminate, epicene, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish, precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft, squeamish, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, unmanly, womanish
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