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prissypris‧sy /ˈprɪsi/ adjective informal prissyOrigin: 1800-1900 Probably from prim + sissy - a look of prissy disapproval
- She always irritated me - she was so prissy.
- Art Lux and Vinny Pearson, the newspapers, the party bigwigs, the whole prissy state of Minnesota.
- I suppose if Rupert had not been a bear he might have been considered prissy, like Noddy.
- Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy, frenchified, very feminine though not at all homosexual.
- To argue would be prissy, he decided.
behaving very correctly and easily shocked by anything rude – used to show disapproval—prissily adverb—prissiness noun [uncountable] |