prissyadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈprɪsi/, U.S.

/ˈprɪsi/

Forms: 1800s– prissy, 1900s– prissey.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by blending. Etymons: prim adj., sissy n.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a blend of prim adj. and sissy n.With use as adjective compare the following earlier quot., which expresses a positive sense and apparently represents a different word (perhaps shortened < pristine adj.; compare -y suffix⁶):1842 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 12 or 15 Apr. in R. M. Aderman & W. R. Kime Advocate for Amer.: Life James Kirke Paulding (2003) 272 Time has been merciful to him. He looks more fresh and prissy than ever we saw him, excepting that his locks are a little more like those of his ‘illustrious predecessor’, being whitened by the snows of a few more winters.

colloquial (originally U.S.).

A. adj.

Precise and over-particular; (affectedly) prim or prudish, esp. in a manner considered feminine or effeminate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affectedly proper

moy1487

strait-laced1554

mima1586

prim1702

prick-eared1707

prudish1717

priggish1731

primsy1786

trig1793

missish1795

missy1805

pershittie1808

missyish1818

missy-like1831

primmy1857

pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857

antiseptic1891

blue-nosed1893

prissy1894

Nice Nelly1922

prissified1923

prunes and prismy1931

1894 J. C. Harris in Los Angeles Times 23 Dec. 21/5 ‘Once, when I was courting, I spoke of a sitting hen, but the young lady said I was too prissy for anything.’ ‘What is “prissy”?’.. ‘It's nothing but a girl's word... It means that somebody's trying hard to show off.’

1927 D. Marquis Archy & Mehitabel xxiv. 107 Some strait laced prune faced bunch of prissy mouthed sisters of uncharity.

1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. ii. 36 He was disgusted at the precise, prissy tones in which he heard himself saying, ‘It's lovely to be in the country.’

1963 Guardian 28 Mar. 1/3 The rather prissy manner in which Dr Beeching has chosen to announce his determination to make us turn into a new economic man.

1992 N.Y. Times 19 July ix. 1/2 Mrs Gore and her friends are trying to undo the cartoonish image of her as the prissy, humorless Carry Nation of rock-and-roll. She's really funky and soft-hearted, they say.

2002 Independent 24 June i. 14/2 Hitherto, advice columnists..were prissy and dainty, tiptoeing around contentious issues and often wrapping replies in swathes of euphemism.

B. n.

A prissy person; = priss n. Also with the and plural agreement: prissy people collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety > person

prig1677

prigster1688

prim1699

bluenose1903

Nice Nelly1922

priss1923

prissy1927

1927 Amer. Speech 2 362/1 Prissey..,a boy who acts like a girl. ‘Don't be such a prissey, Jim.’

1975 L. Gillen Return to Deepwater viii. 140 Good grief, you little prissy, you've been kissed before, certainly!

1990 Christian Cent. 18 Apr. 389 The prissy may complain of martial language.

Derivatives

ˈprissily adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adverb] > in affected proper manner

priggishly1721

primly1733

prudishly1742

maiden-auntishly1928

prissily1934

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prissily,..adv.—prissiness, n.

1939 F. Prokosch Night of Poor xxvi. 218 ‘You're a dirty boy,’ she observed, prissily tossing her curls.

1976 Listener 15 July 58/1 The blackcurrant eyes, the prissily pursed mouth.

2003 Economist 1 Feb. 52 ‘The Prophet was a man of religion not sex,’ pronounced a former religious-affairs minister prissily.

ˈprissiness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety

prudery1708

primness1713

priggery1743

priggism1753

prudishness1760

priggishness1768

missishness1839

missiness1857

prigdom1873

prudity1891

Comstockery1905

prighood1906

nice nellyism1933

prissiness1934

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prissily,..adv.—prissiness, n.

1935 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. 19/4 All the technical skill..fails to save their work ‘from a certain prissiness and cloying prettification’.

1957 Observer 15 Sept. 13/2 When it aspires to epigram, the dialogue falls into a quaint, soggy prissiness.

1995 Independent 14 Feb. 14/5 Your leading article..suggests middle-class attitudes of prissiness, prejudice and irrational fear to be at the bottom of it all.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prissyv.

Brit.

/ˈprɪsi/, U.S.

/ˈprɪsi/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: prissy adj.; prissy n.

Etymology: < either prissy adj. or prissy n. Compare earlier priss v.

colloquial (originally U.S.). rare.

intransitive and transitive = priss v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] > act with affected nicety

prissy1960

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > perform or enact affectedly [verb (transitive)] > make affected

miniardize1598

mannerize1899

prissy1960

1960 Los Angeles Times 29 May g3/1 Guess that will teach you not to prissy up your language for the children, Helen.

1985 Financial Times 2 July i. 21 The new Hawke is teetotal and bouffant-smart..so that he is now being accused of primping and prissying around Canberra.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 19 June 8 Women don't want to think of Bond as licensed to dither, prissying around Turnbull and Asser saying: ‘Now, are you sure these are 100 per cent sea-island cotton?’

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prissy
释义	prissyadj.n. Brit. /ˈprɪsi/, U.S. /ˈprɪsi/ Forms: 1800s– prissy, 1900s– prissey. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by blending. Etymons: prim adj., sissy n. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a blend of prim adj. and sissy n.With use as adjective compare the following earlier quot., which expresses a positive sense and apparently represents a different word (perhaps shortened < pristine adj.; compare -y suffix⁶):1842 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 12 or 15 Apr. in R. M. Aderman & W. R. Kime Advocate for Amer.: Life James Kirke Paulding (2003) 272 Time has been merciful to him. He looks more fresh and prissy than ever we saw him, excepting that his locks are a little more like those of his ‘illustrious predecessor’, being whitened by the snows of a few more winters. colloquial (originally U.S.). A. adj. Precise and over-particular; (affectedly) prim or prudish, esp. in a manner considered feminine or effeminate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affectedly proper moy1487 strait-laced1554 mima1586 prim1702 prick-eared1707 prudish1717 priggish1731 primsy1786 trig1793 missish1795 missy1805 pershittie1808 missyish1818 missy-like1831 primmy1857 pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857 antiseptic1891 blue-nosed1893 prissy1894 Nice Nelly1922 prissified1923 prunes and prismy1931 1894 J. C. Harris in Los Angeles Times 23 Dec. 21/5 ‘Once, when I was courting, I spoke of a sitting hen, but the young lady said I was too prissy for anything.’ ‘What is “prissy”?’.. ‘It's nothing but a girl's word... It means that somebody's trying hard to show off.’ 1927 D. Marquis Archy & Mehitabel xxiv. 107 Some strait laced prune faced bunch of prissy mouthed sisters of uncharity. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. ii. 36 He was disgusted at the precise, prissy tones in which he heard himself saying, ‘It's lovely to be in the country.’ 1963 Guardian 28 Mar. 1/3 The rather prissy manner in which Dr Beeching has chosen to announce his determination to make us turn into a new economic man. 1992 N.Y. Times 19 July ix. 1/2 Mrs Gore and her friends are trying to undo the cartoonish image of her as the prissy, humorless Carry Nation of rock-and-roll. She's really funky and soft-hearted, they say. 2002 Independent 24 June i. 14/2 Hitherto, advice columnists..were prissy and dainty, tiptoeing around contentious issues and often wrapping replies in swathes of euphemism. B. n. A prissy person; = priss n. Also with the and plural agreement: prissy people collectively. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety > person prig1677 prigster1688 prim1699 bluenose1903 Nice Nelly1922 priss1923 prissy1927 1927 Amer. Speech 2 362/1 Prissey..,a boy who acts like a girl. ‘Don't be such a prissey, Jim.’ 1975 L. Gillen Return to Deepwater viii. 140 Good grief, you little prissy, you've been kissed before, certainly! 1990 Christian Cent. 18 Apr. 389 The prissy may complain of martial language. Derivatives ˈprissily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adverb] > in affected proper manner priggishly1721 primly1733 prudishly1742 maiden-auntishly1928 prissily1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prissily,..adv.—prissiness, n. 1939 F. Prokosch Night of Poor xxvi. 218 ‘You're a dirty boy,’ she observed, prissily tossing her curls. 1976 Listener 15 July 58/1 The blackcurrant eyes, the prissily pursed mouth. 2003 Economist 1 Feb. 52 ‘The Prophet was a man of religion not sex,’ pronounced a former religious-affairs minister prissily. ˈprissiness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety prudery1708 primness1713 priggery1743 priggism1753 prudishness1760 priggishness1768 missishness1839 missiness1857 prigdom1873 prudity1891 Comstockery1905 prighood1906 nice nellyism1933 prissiness1934 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Prissily,..adv.—prissiness, n. 1935 N.Y. Times 29 Jan. 19/4 All the technical skill..fails to save their work ‘from a certain prissiness and cloying prettification’. 1957 Observer 15 Sept. 13/2 When it aspires to epigram, the dialogue falls into a quaint, soggy prissiness. 1995 Independent 14 Feb. 14/5 Your leading article..suggests middle-class attitudes of prissiness, prejudice and irrational fear to be at the bottom of it all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prissyv. Brit. /ˈprɪsi/, U.S. /ˈprɪsi/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: prissy adj.; prissy n. Etymology: < either prissy adj. or prissy n. Compare earlier priss v. colloquial (originally U.S.). rare. intransitive and transitive = priss v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > be affected or act affectedly [verb (intransitive)] > act with affected nicety prissy1960 the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > perform or enact affectedly [verb (transitive)] > make affected miniardize1598 mannerize1899 prissy1960 1960 Los Angeles Times 29 May g3/1 Guess that will teach you not to prissy up your language for the children, Helen. 1985 Financial Times 2 July i. 21 The new Hawke is teetotal and bouffant-smart..so that he is now being accused of primping and prissying around Canberra. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 19 June 8 Women don't want to think of Bond as licensed to dither, prissying around Turnbull and Asser saying: ‘Now, are you sure these are 100 per cent sea-island cotton?’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1894v.1960
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