| 释义 |
▪ I. priss U.S. colloq.|prɪs|
[Back-formation from prissy a.]
One who is prissy; a prim girl; an effeminate man, a ‘pansy’.
1923G. McKnight Eng. Words iv. 61 Youthful impatience with anything or anybody that interferes with a good time is expressed by such names as kill-joy, frost, wet-blanket... To these may be added, from the language of girls,..poor potato,..cuckoo, old priss, old Jane. Ibid. 62 If she [sc. a girl] is unpopular, she is..a priss, a tomato, a chunk of lead, a drag. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §825/32 Priss, a girl who objects to ‘necking’. 1975A. Bergman Hollywood & LeVine (1976) ii. 23, I..was led to my room by an elderly priss named Roy. He told me I looked the rugged type. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 16 Oct. 10/3 Randall..is television's consummate comedy priss, his overelocution and self-righteousness maddeningly funny.
▪ II. priss(e
obs. f. price n.1, prize v.1 |